On Thu, 5 May 2016 10:14:13 -0400 Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/05/2016 09:16 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > What are proper criteria for flagging a package out of date? My reason > > for asking has to do with: > > http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Well, it is currently flagged out of date: > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttytter/ > > But I don't know why, since upstream is apparently dead and the > community package is already on the latest (ancient) upstream release. > > Is this because it got forked to continue support? I think that > qualifies as new software, and therefore a new package. > You're right, but people can flag it out of date for whatever reason they want (and doing this a lot causes maintainers to ignore the flag). In this case, yes, it is because of a fork.
