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Mohammad_AlSaleh

22 Aug 2015 22 Aug '15

7:27 p.m.

Hello. Tex Live 2015 was released on June 11. The Arch packages were flagged out-of-date on June 13. I'm wondering if there is any reason for the hold-up. Other than the maintainers(s) being busy of course.

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Sebastiaan Lokhorst

24 Aug 24 Aug

3:59 p.m.

2015-08-22 21:27 GMT+02:00 Mohammad_AlSaleh :

I'm wondering if there is any reason for the hold-up. Other than the maintainers(s) being busy of course.

I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer? Thanks, Sebastiaan [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=remy

Leonid Isaev

5 p.m.

I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer?

TeXLive is not a critical package, so what's the rush updating it? If you really want to see an updated version, open a bugreport and attach there a patched PKGBUILD. And of course, you can always build the latest version locally (just clone the svn trunk and run makepkg)... Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

Doug Newgard

5:15 p.m.

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:00:18 +0000 Leonid Isaev wrote:

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I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer?

TeXLive is not a critical package, so what's the rush updating it? If you really want to see an updated version, open a bugreport and attach there a patched PKGBUILD. And of course, you can always build the latest version locally (just clone the svn trunk and run makepkg)...

Cheers,

Please do not file a bug report because a package is outdated. This is the #1 rule of the bugtracker. Doug

Leonid Isaev

5:54 p.m.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:15:32PM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote:

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:00:18 +0000 Leonid Isaev wrote:

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I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer?

TeXLive is not a critical package, so what's the rush updating it? If you really want to see an updated version, open a bugreport and attach there a patched PKGBUILD. And of course, you can always build the latest version locally (just clone the svn trunk and run makepkg)...

Cheers,

Please do not file a bug report because a package is outdated. This is the #1 rule of the bugtracker.

Sorry, I meant feature request. Of course, opening tickets just to say that a package X is out-of-date is silly. But if the project is complex (like texlive-*) then bumping it may not be a simple issue. So if I happen to go through this exercise before the maintainer, how am supposed to communicate the working PKGBUILD, in an open fashion? A ML would be best of course, but arch-general isn't a place for this... Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

Rémy Oudompheng

1 Sep 1 Sep

1:01 p.m.

2015-08-24 17:59 GMT+02:00 Sebastiaan Lokhorst :

2015-08-22 21:27 GMT+02:00 Mohammad_AlSaleh :

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I'm wondering if there is any reason for the hold-up. Other than the maintainers(s) being busy of course.

I'm also curious about this. It seems like the maintainer hasn't been active for the past 5 months.[1] What is the normal course of action in such a case? For instance, how could I contact the maintainer?

Thanks, Sebastiaan

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=remy

I am not very active because TeXLive is updated only once a year. I usually do a couple of incremental updates because TeXLive packages also receive continuous updates between 2 yearly releases, and to catch up with bug fixes. The packages are now available in [testing]. They were almost ready for a while but remaining issues had to be fixed and I couldn't find the time until today. You can always contact me through e-mail at remy@archlinux.org. Regards, Rémy.

Sebastiaan Lokhorst

1:16 p.m.

2015-09-01 15:01 GMT+02:00 Rémy Oudompheng :

I am not very active because TeXLive is updated only once a year. I usually do a couple of incremental updates because TeXLive packages also receive continuous updates between 2 yearly releases, and to catch up with bug fixes.

The packages are now available in [testing]. They were almost ready for a while but remaining issues had to be fixed and I couldn't find the time until today.

You can always contact me through e-mail at remy@archlinux.org.

Regards, Rémy.

Thanks so much for your effort! I wasn't sure about your status so hence my question. Even though you only hear from us when we're complaining, we all appreciate your work! ;) Sebastiaan

Mohammad_AlSaleh

2 Sep 2 Sep

9:44 p.m.

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:16:13PM +0200, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

2015-09-01 15:01 GMT+02:00 Rémy Oudompheng :

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I am not very active because TeXLive is updated only once a year. I usually do a couple of incremental updates because TeXLive packages also receive continuous updates between 2 yearly releases, and to catch up with bug fixes.

The packages are now available in [testing]. They were almost ready for a while but remaining issues had to be fixed and I couldn't find the time until today.

You can always contact me through e-mail at remy@archlinux.org.

Regards, Rémy.

Thanks so much for your effort! I wasn't sure about your status so hence my question. Even though you only hear from us when we're complaining, we all appreciate your work! ;) Sebastiaan

+1 Thank you for taking care of those packages. I know how unmotivating such tedious tasks can be for a volunteer.

Grady Martin

7 Sep 7 Sep

1:36 a.m.

On 2015年09月03日 00時44分, Mohammad_AlSaleh wrote:

Thank you for taking care of those packages. I know how unmotivating such tedious tasks can be for a volunteer.

I noticed the update, too. Thank you.

Kyle Bassett

4:43 a.m.

+1 Remy, thanks too! All of you maintainers do an excellent job! On Sep 6, 2015 9:35 PM, "Grady Martin" wrote:

On 2015年09月03日 00時44分, Mohammad_AlSaleh wrote:

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Thank you for taking care of those packages. I know how unmotivating such tedious tasks can be for a volunteer.

I noticed the update, too. Thank you.

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