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Llama

Banned

From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Repository vs. AUR management

Hi,

Is there a way to learn more about how a package fares in a regular repository? For instance, any package in AUR is complete with a discussion list which I can check at any time.

There's the Arch Way: upgrades come asap . OK, there's qbittorrent 2.x out there for quite some time: http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/download.php
On the other hand, it's still

$ yaourt -Ss qbittorrent
community/qbittorrent 1.5.6-2 [installed]
     A bittorrent client written in C++ / Qt4 using the good libtorrent library
$

here.
I don't think that my [idle] curiosity warrants an email to the maintainer; is there a non-intrusive way to learn why?

jelly

Administrator

From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 716

Re: Repository vs. AUR management

Hi,

Is there a way to learn more about how a package fares in a regular repository? For instance, any package in AUR is complete with a discussion list which I can check at any time.

There's the Arch Way: upgrades come asap . OK, there's qbittorrent 2.x out there for quite some time: http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/download.php
On the other hand, it's still

$ yaourt -Ss qbittorrent
community/qbittorrent 1.5.6-2 [installed]
     A bittorrent client written in C++ / Qt4 using the good libtorrent library
$

here.
I don't think that my [idle] curiosity warrants an email to the maintainer; is there a non-intrusive way to learn why?

Flag the package out of date here http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=qbittorrent ,  if the package doesn't get updated mail the maintainer.

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