Giving up maintainer duty

[Peter Bonivart]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately, we don't have the facility to do this. Somebody else
> has to rebuild and push new versions of these packages. We've talked
> about related issues in the past[1], but we don't have a workable
> conclusion[2]. All ideas that people liked would require changes to
> the infrastructure, and nobody volunteered to make these changes. I
> suggested some ideas that did not require infrastructure changes, but
> people didn't like them.

Isn't it simplest to register a dummy user called Orphaned or similar
and assign such packages to that "maintainer"? That way users can
easily see the state of the package in question and it doesn't require
any changes on our part.