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#1 2010-01-21 08:10:31
- FarmerF
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- From: Netherlands
- Registered: 2009-06-08
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A question about contributing to a package in extra
Hi all,
Been using arch for a while (about a jear and a half) now and liking it very much.
My previous favorite was Gentoo but a clean install took so long >.<
I came acros a python IDE (Eric) that i wanted to try and noticed the package is out of date (4.3.10 instead of 4.4.0).
Curious about the whole PKGBUILD thing I looked at what needed changing and with two small changes (version and md5) the package is up to date again.
All the wiki articles about helping out however eiter talk about working with AUR packages or filling a bug.
A bug according to the faq would be inapropriate and as I understood I am not allowed to change a package outside of AUR as a beginner.
As the package is orphaned as well I wonder what the best course of action would be.
I instaled it on my machine with the changes so the update to the package is not needed for me personally but thought it might help others.
Yours,
Frank
Ps. the changes
< pkgver=4.3.10
> pkgver=4.4.0
< md5sums=('946cab99f7ac86f50d8c811887bd1da0'
'77c494bb839c5744869d34355ea69095')
> md5sums=('1205f96adae024f4e2fe5da95de18cb3'
'77c494bb839c5744869d34355ea69095')
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#2 2010-01-21 08:18:13
- Allan
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- From: Brisbane, AU
- Registered: 2007-06-09
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Re: A question about contributing to a package in extra
Flagging the package out of date on the main site (already done) and, if it has been a while, sending a working PKGBUILD to the arch-general mailing list is the best approach.
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