I was orphaning rubygem-rack-ssl [1] following the guide [2]. I gave the package to the orphan user and that went fine. But once I deleted myself from the package, I was greeted by some "503" error (if I am not mistaken). That should not happen. Nevertheless, the good news is that I was removed from the maintainer list, so the action succeeded (actually that was probably reason for the "503" error, but ....).