You can fork, update it, and then put a PR in to METADATA which changes the url for the package. Someone like @tkelman will probably try to contact the author to make sure he/she's really disappeared. Open an issue on METADATA and see if the author shows up.
On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 3:34:42 PM UTC-7, Evan Fields wrote: > > I use the package GreatCircle <https://github.com/acrosby/GreatCircle.jl> for > great circle distance calculations. On 0.4.x it generates depwarns, and > it's incompatible with 0.5. I've opened a pull request with the tiny > changes needed to use the package on 0.5, but there's been no response and > from the author's Github profile it looks like he/she is no longer > generally active. Is there a way to rescue the package in this situation? > (Besides perhaps forking and renaming, which leads to cluttered package > names...) >
