On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Luceo Astrum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to request that xen be orphaned so that I can adopt it: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14640 > > I've contacted the maintainer (revellion) by e-mail yesterday (I know > nowhere near the two weeks but believe the rest of this post is relevant). > > Since the last update in 2011, there have been three serious Xen Security > Advisories with patches: > > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00001.html > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00003.html > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.html > > The maintainer has not upgraded the package to support these patches. He > also hasn't changed the dependency for 'xz-utils' to 'xz'. > > The package was marked out of date. > > Finally, he has not responded on the AUR comments, including two addressed > directly to him by 'aaronfitz' and 'fatmike' in January and March > respectively. > > All of the above leads me to believe that he's no longer active. > > I will update this thread after 2 weeks if he hasn't responded, unless a TU > takes the decision that my research is enough to show that the user is not > active.
Your research is substantial, but let's wait out the two weeks. :)
