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boogachamp

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 20

Packages out of date?

Seems I always have silly questions ( I hope they don't annoy to many people ).

When a package is updated because a newer stable version is released, and other packages have the updated package as a dependency, should the other packages be flagged as out of date because they are not built against the new packages.  (can i say packages any more times?)

Example:
libarchive 2.6.2-1 was just updated.
I see that gvfs 1.0.3-2 depends on this package.
Does this mean that gvfs 1.0.3-2 is now out of date and be flagged as such?

Thanks for your time

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

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Re: Packages out of date?

no, it's not out of date. if it has to be rebuild than developers will do it and bump the package version only.

boogachamp

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 20

Re: Packages out of date?

I guess.

Thanks for the quick response.

rson451

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Re: Packages out of date?

If you care to dive a bit into it, subscribe to the arch-dev mailing list.  The system they use for upgrades and publishing packages is all very public.

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boogachamp

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 20

Re: Packages out of date?

noted, and subscribed