[SOLVED] Can't orphan a package

Henonicks · 2026-05-15 06:43:50

Hi, I'm trying to orphan a library package as the developers are looking for a package maintainer since the current one has proven to be unreachable. So I decided to take the package upon myself and submitted an orphan request, on April 29th. From what I understand, according to the AUR wiki, if an orphan request goes unanswered for 14 days, it's automatically granted, but it's still hanging. Is there something specific I'm meant to do?

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seth · 2026-05-15 07:08:42

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/li … 7JW6X4QGY/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dpp-git

Looking around it, none of the packages that were not OOD for 6 months were orphaned - and your candidate wasn't even set OOD at the time.
There also were a couple of hoildays inbetween, so in doubt just wait - there's nothing else you can formally do and appealing to the AUR general mailing list is under the circumstances probably not justified.

Henonicks · 2026-05-15 07:31:15

So my best bet is to flag the package as Out Of Date and wait till it becomes auto-orphan-able?

seth · 2026-05-15 07:41:04

It was flagged yesterday, waiting 6 months for the orphan request to be accepted is unreasonable, if it's not orphaned by the end of may you could appeal to https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/li … linux.org/
(But I suspect this is really just because you're not hitting the automatic path, the package wasn't even flagged ood and the holidays and long weekends during the timeframe)

Henonicks · 2026-05-15 07:43:48

Okay. I do want to ask though, what's the "automatic path" that you mentioned?

seth · 2026-05-15 07:59:11

Orphan requests of 6 months flagged packages get accepted automatically and immediately - nobody needs to monitor rejections or approve the request.

Henonicks · 2026-05-15 08:00:24

I see. But shouldn't the package be orphaned given the orphan request was timed out? Or is that not automatic?

seth · 2026-05-15 12:00:08

Sorry, idk the exact mechanics of the orphaning of packages not marked out of date - usually they get orphaned 14 days on the mark, but there might be a dual check (ie. yours would turn orphan May 28th)

Henonicks · 2026-05-15 12:02:01

I see. Thanks for the response! Will do as you told.

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