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#1 2024-10-10 19:01:29

alastair010
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[SOLVED] How to request for a package on official repo to be updated

Iv'e looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_U … ut-of-date but it seems to apply to aur. Looking on the package info on the site it says "Flagged out-of-date on Nov. 29, 2023". But not sure what to do since its been a long time since it was last flagged. Do I message the maintainer directly?

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#2 2024-10-10 20:03:54

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] How to request for a package on official repo to be updated

Generally https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138 - #6
What's the specific package?

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#3 2024-10-10 20:20:29

alastair010
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Re: [SOLVED] How to request for a package on official repo to be updated

seth wrote:

Generally https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138 - #6
What's the specific package?

Specific package in question is mingw-w64-gcc. Iv'e been using the up to date versions through unofficial means myself and no problems. I just hope its not been forgotten about. It's fine obviously if its not ready, but mainly was just wondering if there was a process in place to remind maintainers if they forgotten to update official package.

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#4 2024-10-10 20:39:26

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Re: [SOLVED] How to request for a package on official repo to be updated

wondering if there was a process in place to remind maintainers if they forgotten to update

Flagging them smile

https://archlinux.org/packages/?maintai … =flag_date
Felix maintains 3580 packages, 72 of them are currently flagged out of date.

mingw-w64-gcc was updated to 13.1 in Nov. 27 '23 (~4 months after the 13.2 upstream release) and flagged OOD 2 days later…
The previous update wa 14 months earlier to 12.2.0 ~1 month after the upstream release.
I assume it's moved slowly since it's mostly relevant for the wine toolchain.

If there's an open issue w/ the dated version you could file a bug at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … c/-/issues

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#5 2024-10-10 20:51:55

alastair010
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Re: [SOLVED] How to request for a package on official repo to be updated

seth wrote:

wondering if there was a process in place to remind maintainers if they forgotten to update

Flagging them smile

https://archlinux.org/packages/?maintai … =flag_date
Felix maintains 3580 packages, 72 of them are currently flagged out of date.

mingw-w64-gcc was updated to 13.1 in Nov. 27 '23 (~4 months after the 13.2 upstream release) and flagged OOD 2 days later…
The previous update wa 14 months earlier to 12.2.0 ~1 month after the upstream release.
I assume it's moved slowly since it's mostly relevant for the wine toolchain.

If there's an open issue w/ the dated version you could file a bug at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … c/-/issues

That makes sense, I didn't look at the average time between previous releases. Thanks for the research and time. Marking as solved

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