Am 02.03.2010 14:47, schrieb Giovanni Scafora:
2010/3/2, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>:
Thank you Tobias for bringing this up; I've noticed it with more than just this package.
OK, then I will stay away from packages that are not mine. Let's keep up out of date packages! Thanks a lot for your rant.
Obviously this is counter-productive. There are lots of packages one can just "bump" without looking at them further. Samba is not one of them, as is mplayer (just to mention a few). We should instead introduce a comment into those PKGBUILDs right above the pkgver= to prevent people from messing with them. Something like: # MAINTAINER INFO: don't upgrade or # MAINTAINER INFO: version x.y.z, do not upgrade on x or y change The latter case would cover all samba problem, as anyone who isn't the primary maintainer will see that if x or y changes, he should not upgrade it.