On 02/11/20 at 06:58pm, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote:
Hi
Thank you again for all the great work managing and keeping packages up to date. It is a significant amount of work and continues to make Arch a really standout distro.
That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages.
I've selected a few to highlight based on age and my own view of importance (no claim its a good view).
So, here's a few that might benefit from an update: Cal Pkg Name Vers Updt Flag CVers Date Age Age Pkger ----------- -------- ------ ------ ------- ------ ---- --- ----- thunderbird 68.4.2 200126 200211 68.5.0 200210 16 15 LP bash 5.0.011 191118 200208 5.0.016 200207 85 81 EF fail2ban 0.10.5 200112 200112 0.11.1 200111 30 -1 FY ipset 7.4 191202 200109 7.5 200109 71 38 SL samba 4.10.10 191114 191101 4.11.6 200128 89 75 TP smbclient 4.10.10 191114 191101 4.11.6 200128 89 75 TP ebtables 2.0.10_4 181113 191203 2.0.11 190212 455 384 EF biber 1:2.13 191101 191202 2.14 191201 102 30 RO diffstat 1.62 190106 191130 1.63 191129 401 327 AW libelf 0.177 191118 191128 0.178 191126 85 8 EF elfutils 0.177 191118 191128 0.178 191126 85 8 EF refind-efi 0.11.3 180723 181119 0.11.4 191112 568 112 TP [1]
[1] 0.11.5 looks to be coming out soon
Cal Age = days since last update Pkg Age = days between current and arch release Cvers = Current version
Packagers EF Evangelos Foutras FY Felix Yan SL Sébastien Luttringer TP Tobias Powalowski AW Alad Wenter RO Rémy Oudompheng LP Levente Polyak
The packages that really standout to me are refind-efi and samba.
Hopefully this is useful. Thanks and happy updating!
Be aware that packagers might be busy, have limited time or various rebuilds need to happen. For samba for example there is an updated version in [testing]. For libelf, a rebuild is required which might make sense to wait until binutils has support for debuginfod so we don't have to rebuild it twice. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65406 -- Jelle van der Waa