On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 09:04:57PM +0200, Claudia Pellegrino via aur-general wrote: > Hi Leonidas, > > > What stops you from opening bug report and submitting patches for those > > now without being a TU? If these are in core/extras your options would > > be the same as you have now, right? > > Wait, is this actually a thing? > > As a non-TU, one thing that has deterred me from using the bug tracker > to submit patches for outdated packages is this warning: > > > Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. > > Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List. > > followed by: > > > REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages! > > and similarly, on the wiki: > > > Reasons for not being a bug > > […] > > A package which is not-up-to-date. Use the Flag Package Out-of-Date feature > > on Arch's packages website. > > That’s a total of three warnings. Enough for me to decide to not take > chances. Your suggestion seems to contradict those warnings though. > What am I missing?
I think it's worth separating a package update (most often it's just a change to pkgver and hash sums) and fixing a bug, improving pkgbuild, or adding features. as a maintainer, I would like to receive the second and never see the first. > Regards > Claudia (aka Auerhuhn) -- Sincerely, Alexander | Trusted User
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