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#1 2025-12-09 01:14:48
- the_knights_of_rohan
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ifuse package a year out of date
Hello, I recently installed ifuse from the official repository, since I was having trouble building it from source, but I was leery of it because it was shown to be more than a year out of date. Luckily, it worked fine, but I'm still a little nervous that it will break suddenly. Is there a schedule for when it will be upgraded to use the latest stable version, or is there a place I can make a request? I understand that is can be a little naggy, but I do think this should be fixed, since I would assume it's a commonly downloaded package. Thanks!
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#2 2025-12-09 01:24:46
- V1del
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Re: ifuse package a year out of date
it's 2 months out of date, not a year. And the only changes were upgrading to a newer API, the older that's in use currently is still available, so inherently you shouldn't worry too much. It's libimobiledevice that does the heavy lifting and that is up to date as can be.
Other than that the package is flagged out of date - that's the place to make the request and where it's been put, so you'll have to wait for the maintainers to fix it, or build the package on your own in the meantime. Generally speaking this falls under the category of number 6 in; https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138 and is somewhat frowned upon.
The only other place where you'd do this is the gitlab, but there's a bot integration that has done the equivalent of you asking already: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/1
TLDR: The changes are of cosmetic nature to an end user, keep calm, carry on, wait for the update.
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#3 2025-12-09 01:38:07
- the_knights_of_rohan
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Re: ifuse package a year out of date
That makes sense, thank you for the quick response!
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#4 2025-12-09 08:00:03
- seth
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Re: ifuse package a year out of date
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.
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