Call for arms: Arch Linux D package maintenance

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On Monday, 17 April 2017 at 11:04:11 UTC, R McGuire wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 April 2017 at 09:34:00 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 16:17:32 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 19:58:47 UTC, Rory McGuire 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Any news on this? The arch packages are listed as orphaned.
>>
>> Same question, and adding that I volunteer to take over.
>>
>> Atila
>
> Are you involved in Arch?
>
> The update is that Arch TUs are not likely to accept one of us 
> that is not very involved in Arch. I've been watching the Arch 
> mailing lists a bit and two users that tried to get involved 
> were rejected and one user who is _very_ involved and has been 
> for years got accepted.
>
> I have tried to contact the last person that built the packages 
> to see I could help with the dlang packages but have not 
> received a reply yet.


Ouch - so how do we improve the status quo?
It's July, the packages are still listed as orphans [1], haven't 
received the 2.074.1 update and the Arch TUs are clearly not 
interested in maintaining it (its flagged as out-of-date since 
beginning of June). Moreover, with the recent move to -fPIC 
(which currently is in -fPIC), the packages would need a rebuilt 
with -fPIC (see [2]).
Anyone with an idea?

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/dmd
[2] 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/gpbyhmdsudlmapsvvqmq@forum.dlang.org