On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 11:33:14 -0400 Ido Rosen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I was the maintainer of dpkg up until a few hours ago when an orphan > request was submitted and accepted within an hour of submission. There is > supposed to be a 2 week period where the maintainer is contacted and a > conversation can happen. This procedure was not followed here. That doesn't apply in cases where the package has been flagged as out of date for over 7 months. Looking at the git log and at the comments, it's pretty obvious you weren't maintaining it. > > The package was not out of date, it is supposed to track upstream stable, > not unstable! bertptrs has updated it to the unstable version. If he > wanted the unstable version he could have created a dpkg-unstable package > or otherwise modified the PKGBUILD for himself. > > Thanks, > Ido > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 5:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > bertptrs [1] filed a orphan request for dpkg [2]: > > > > Maintainer has not updated package in over half a year, after a > > breaking bug has been reported. > > > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/bertptrs/ > > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/dpkg/ > >
