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aricaldeira

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From: Sorocaba - SP - Brasil

Registered: 2008-02-08

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How to send patches to update outdated packages

Hi!

Three packages I use are outdated, so I updated them via ABS. How can I send patches to the maintainers of those packages, so the can updated to everyone?

Thanks!

Ari Caldeira
Brasil

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: How to send patches to update outdated packages

http://bugs.archlinux.org

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

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Re: How to send patches to update outdated packages

Email generally works fine - you can get email addresses of core/extra devs at http://www.archlinux.org/developers/ and of community TUs on the AUR page, I believe.

Generally, though, if the diff is something simple, like

< pkgver=1.0
> pkgver=1.1

Then you can just flag the package out-of-date in the package interface (search for the package on the main page) and provide a simple message, like "only version bump is needed."

Cerebral

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Re: How to send patches to update outdated packages

http://bugs.archlinux.org

No.  Do NOT use Flyspray to post out-of-date package updates.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

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Re: How to send patches to update outdated packages

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No.  Do NOT use Flyspray to post out-of-date package updates.

Ow ok, sorry for my bad advice then. I didn't knew you could enter a message when flagging a package out of date.

aricaldeira

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From: Sorocaba - SP - Brasil

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 6

Re: How to send patches to update outdated packages

Oh, boy, you guys are fast! :-D Thanks!

Besides the pkgver thing, I also updated the md5sum, so that makepkg doesn't complain.

For xkeyboard-config I sent the message when I marked the package outdated, but the other packages are already marked outdated.

I'll email the maintainers, instead of filing bug reports.

Thank you!

Edit ----

The maintainers emails are already written in the PKGBUILD files, I just noticed that

Last edited by aricaldeira (2008-02-08 16:45:54)

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

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Re: How to send patches to update outdated packages

If they are already marked out-of-date and if they are not out-of-date from an unreasonable amount of time, then I would say that it is not very polite to add an email to the already sent notification that the package is out-of-date.

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aricaldeira

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From: Sorocaba - SP - Brasil

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 6

Re: How to send patches to update outdated packages

Oh, I didn't think it could be seen that way!

My intention was to help, not to harrass!

I hope they don't see it that way!