There ary many reasons for "not to update a package". For example slang-1.4.9 is still in extra, even though slang-2 is available since many months and considered stable. But many applications in extra still depend on slang-1 and would break if i bump to slang-2. For example jed, a popular editor written by the author of slang, but only available as pre-release for the slang-2 library.
Jürgen On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:48:45PM +0200, Richard Golier wrote: > What to do if packagers don't update their pkg even after they've been > flagged > as out-of-date for a long time? As an example take links: Last Updated: > 2005-04-04, ok i contacted dorphell on irc and let him know, but still no > update. > Or bluefish Last Updated: 2005-07-09. There have been 2 new versions since > then, pkg is flagged out-of-date and still nothing... > > Are the maintainers so busy? I understand they may have a lot of work, but > replacing pkgver in PKGBUILD and compiling both of the packages took me about > 3 minutes, so it's not that time-consuming. > -- > > --pholie > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
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