You should try to contact the maintainer, and find out if they are
planning an update, but missed CRAN's schedule. If not, then you should
volunteer to take over as maintainer.
Being a maintainer doesn't require much work for the minimum necessary
work: you just need to fix issues as they ari
Non-Maintainer Update (NMU) is a well-defined term in the Debian Developer's
Reference and packaging practice (see [1]) but not something that exists in
the CRAN Repository Policy [2] so "requesting" a NMU is a tricky. As Duncan
kindly explained there are some words in [2] about transfering / ta
