2012/9/12 SanskritFritz <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alexander Rødseth <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Disowned. Thanks. > > I find this a bit interesting and alarming. The OP has not shared any > details about any reason or about writing emails to the maintainer, > nevetheless you disowned the package without asking. May we know the > reason? > This process is too open if you ask me, anyone can ask here to disown > any package. Now there are packages in the AUR which I trust, because > I trust the maintainer, hence I don't check the PKGBUILD before every > update. A git package can be changed any time without version check, > but it will be compiled every day when I makepkg. So to summarise: > someone asks for a disown here, gives no reasons why. You orphan it, > anyone can adopt it immediately and change the package as he wants. I > update the package using cower, and trust that the maintainer has not > changed (I know, my mistake), so I have an altered package without my > knowledge. Am I missing something?
No need for such harsh email. I don't think TUs would disown before analising some evidences, like why it is out-of-date, whether the maintainer is active or not, dates, etc. Anyway, this maintainer had only one package sent more than a year ago and did not replied for a week. It doesn't look like he is actually maintaining something.
