On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Alexander Rødseth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Some of these packages are out of date and some have better PKGBUILDs > in the comments: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=phi&SeB=m > > Last activity from the user was over two years ago: 2011-03-17 (the > brother-hl2030 package) > > The two packages that are out of date has not been updated for three years. > > My plan is to orphan all his packages if nobody thinks that's a > horribly bad idea. > > I'm also interested in comments about what should be done for similar > situations in the future. I assume most users would be happy just to > see the pacakges being updated instead of hoarded and would think it > was fine if TUs just orphan them after a similar investigation of the > situation. > > -- > Sincerely, > Alexander Rødseth > xyproto / TU
There are quite a few orphaned packages nobody is maintaining or updating even though they have updated PKGBUILDs posted in the comments. Users can always ask for a package to be orphaned.
