---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Billy Morgan* <2021bmorgan@gmail.com> Date: Monday, 1 November 2021 Subject: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers To: arch-security@lists.archlinux.org Having far outdated packages is a security issue so I will include security as well. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Billy Morgan* <2021bmorgan@gmail.com> Date: Monday, 1 November 2021 Subject: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers To: anthraxx@archlinux.org, aaron@archlinux.org, jvinet@zeroflux.org Today a post was made on the subreddit about a massive amount of packages being flagged outdated a very long time ago. It was nuked almost immediately and linked to an older thread with a non-answer. This cannot be brushed under the rug. It is not just random packages that are far out of date but even core ones. https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc/ https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%... https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc-libs/ https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%... https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc-go/ https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%... https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/glibc/ https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%... https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dhcpcd/ https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%... https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/binutils/ https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%... Even gnome-shell and others are far out of date. Why are there still maintainers/Trusted Users that haven't been signed in for 5 months holding packages hostage? Please communicate with your userbase. We care and want to help. See this thread. I was forced to move that persons post to 4chan because it got nuked on the subreddit. https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/84101500 Thank you