On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general wrote:
To be more specific, I'm talking about youtube-dl. I'm currently one of youtube-dl maintainers, and I hope Arch users can always get the latest version with pacman. Unfortunately, the package in [community] gets updates slow in comparison with how youtube-dl releases new versions. AUR works, while it's not an ideal solution, as VCS packages are not updated automatically. (I guess there are some helpers for that, but still not ideal for this case)
Best,
Yen Chi Hsuan
youtube-dl gets a new release every two days, I hope you're not expecting packagers to keep up with that. Current package is one month old, that doesn't look too bad to me, especially considering that its maintainer is currently inactive.
Yep that's my expectation. There were several times, that a new version with important fixes (fix for YouTube downloading, etc.) was released, and lots of people came to our issue tracker for "broken" YouTube downloading because the Arch version was not updated yet. As a result, I hope Arch can keep it updated. Of course users can also use our own updater or AUR. I just feel the official package integrates with the system better. For example it updates with `pacman -Syu`. *NOTE* I'm not blaming anyone. I just hope that I can contribute something to Arch, so I'm asking possible approaches here. I know it's a burden to update a package so often, so I'm not requesting anything, just discussing. Best, Yen Chi Hsuan