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detto · 2006-10-13 21:01:35

Ok who is maintainer of xchat-gnome!! 0.13 was released in July and is flagged out of date since months too. Come up and work!
...../ironic mode off

But seriously, i think we should import s.th. like a DB or up2date thing that checks 2,3 times a day or so which package is out of date. :?
One thing that is in arch > slack is/was for me, not to check myself every page for a new version and compile. You also get this bad feeling when s.th. is out of date in such a distro dont ya

phrakture · 2006-10-13 22:48:32

The dev interface has functionality listing the latest freshmeat version of packages if it exists.

detto · 2006-10-14 11:46:03

phrakture wrote:

The dev interface has functionality listing the latest freshmeat version of packages if it exists.

Yeah, but that one isn't including all packages i guess
Like previously discussed there should be an arch solution for this imo, saying outdated packages like this one a goodbye 8)

Snowman · 2006-10-14 19:27:42

detto wrote:

phrakture wrote:
The dev interface has functionality listing the latest freshmeat version of packages if it exists.
Yeah, but that one isn't including all packages i guess
Like previously discussed there should be an arch solution for this imo, saying outdated packages like this one a goodbye 8)

I think you are mixing up two things. Knowing that a package is out-of-date is one thing but to actually do the update is another thing. The flag out-of-date button and the freshmeat rss informs about the package but if the devs are too busy to do the update, then nothing happens. The solution for these out-of-date packages is to have more devs. Recently, 5 new devs were added so we can expect that they will decrease the workload of the other devs.

neotuli · 2006-10-14 19:33:09

four

But yeah, generally snowman's right. Some of these new guys are going to focus on pretty specific items (anyone looked at unstable lately? :-D ), but everybody picks up some general packages too.

Snowman · 2006-10-14 19:39:01

I'm pretty sure it's 5 :

cerebral
codemac
brain0
tomk
Shadowhand

detto · 2006-10-14 20:05:23

Well, ok was a bit confused at that very moment :?
Anyway, it looked just horrible old becaue of July u know
Sure i got it upgraded with ABS already, but as mentioned it is the "check yourself the homepage for new version & maybe upgrade" thing that leaves a bad feeling about the bleeding edge state, which arch claims to be. This probably was also reason for starting this thread because i was somewhat shocked :shock: about this out of date package in a tree like extra!
But ive got good hopes now that things will gettin more quicker again. By the way, seriously, are maintainer of packages needed? I would be on board from now if anyhow possible 8)

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