Hi - First a thank you for all the great work managing and keeping packages up to date. It can a significant amount of work.
That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages.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).
There are also some packages which have been languishing in testing for a while (not sure the reason - I chose to ignore those here.).
Here's a few that might benefit from an update:
Repo Current Package Vers Date Vers Date Age ------------ ------ -------- ------ -------- ---- dkms 2.5 20171130 2.7.1 20190512 528 usbutils 0.10 20180515 0.12 20190507 357 refind-efi 11.3 20180722 11.4 20181112 113 efibootmgr 16 20180409 17 20180610 62 autofs 5.1.4 20171219 5.1.5 20181030 315 lsof 4.91 20180404 4.93.2 20190508 399 cifs-utils 6.8 20180313 6.9 20190405 388 chrony 3.4 20180919 3.5 20190514 237 Docbook-xml 4.5 5.1 ? alsa-lib 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123 Alsa-plugins 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123 Alsa-utils 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123 gradle 5.2.1 20190208 5.4.1 20190426 77
Hope this is helpful, thank you!
gene
Hello
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 3:08 PM Genes Lists via arch-general arch-general@archlinux.org wrote:
Hi - First a thank you for all the great work managing and keeping packages up to date. It can a significant amount of work.
That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages.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).
There are also some packages which have been languishing in testing for a while (not sure the reason - I chose to ignore those here.).
Here's a few that might benefit from an update:
Repo CurrentPackage Vers Date Vers Date Age
dkms 2.5 20171130 2.7.1 20190512 528 usbutils 0.10 20180515 0.12 20190507 357 refind-efi 11.3 20180722 11.4 20181112 113 efibootmgr 16 20180409 17 20180610 62 autofs 5.1.4 20171219 5.1.5 20181030 315 lsof 4.91 20180404 4.93.2 20190508 399
Where did you find lsof version 4.93.2?
The official website does not mention current version. And the mirror Arch uses hosts 4.91 only ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/tools/lsof/
cifs-utils 6.8 20180313 6.9 20190405 388 chrony 3.4 20180919 3.5 20190514 237 Docbook-xml 4.5 5.1 ? alsa-lib 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123 Alsa-plugins 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123 Alsa-utils 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123
alsa packages version 1.1.9 are in [testing] for a week now. They will be moved to stable in a few days.
gradle 5.2.1 20190208 5.4.1 20190426 77
Hope this is helpful, thank you!
Thank you for the feedback! Really appreciate it.
On 5/19/19 6:16 PM, Anatol Pomozov via arch-general wrote:
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lsof 4.91 20180404 4.93.2 20190508 399
Where did you find lsof version 4.93.2?> The official website does not mention current version. And the mirror Arch uses hosts 4.91 only ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/tools/lsof/
That .de site looked pretty dead to me. So I searched around a bit; And I found this though I'm not 100% convinced this isn't a fork ... but hoped you'd know the right thing to do :D
https://github.com/lsof-org/lsof/releases
Debian has 4.91 also Ubunti has 4.91 Fedora rawhide has 4.91
So ... thats why I was a bit confused and figured I'll mention it and let the experts advise on the best way to proceed.
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alsa-lib 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123 Alsa-plugins 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123 Alsa-utils 1.1.8 20190107 1.1.9 20190510 123
alsa packages version 1.1.9 are in [testing] for a week now. They will be moved to stable in a few days.
Sorry about that - I meant to exclude that for that exact reason.
Thank you for the feedback! Really appreciate it.
On 20.05.19 00:08, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote:
Hi - First a thank you for all the great work managing and keeping packages up to date. It can a significant amount of work.
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).
There are also some packages which have been languishing in testing for a while (not sure the reason - I chose to ignore those here.).
bird[1] is flagged out of date since 2,5 month, maybe somebody could bump the version from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 if seblu has no time.
Kind regards Bjoern
On 5/19/19 6:08 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote:
Firstly, a big thank you for those who updated their packages :)
(By the way, The age column is the number of days between the current available release and the version we have in the repo. )
Given the work needed to explore possible use of the lsof fork - i've removed it from here as well. Docbook I can't follow the versioning/dates clearly but sure does seem like we're a bit behind.
If the primary maintainer(s) are too busy I wonder if someone else could update to newer packages?
refind-efi, efibootmgr and autofs in particular could use a refresh - right!
thanks again.
gene
Repo CurrentPackage Vers Date Vers Date Age
usbutils 0.10 20180515 0.12 20190507 357 refind-efi 11.3 20180722 11.4 20181112 113 efibootmgr 16 20180409 17 20180610 62 autofs 5.1.4 20171219 5.1.5 20181030 315 cifs-utils 6.8 20180313 6.9 20190405 388 Docbook-xml 4.5 5.1 ? gradle 5.2.1 20190208 5.4.1 20190426 77
The refind update is probably easy to integrate. It's mostly just fixing one bug with a workaround.
On Wed, May 22, 2019, 6:06 PM Genes Lists via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 5/19/19 6:08 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote:
Firstly, a big thank you for those who updated their packages :)
(By the way, The age column is the number of days between the current available release and the version we have in the repo. )
Given the work needed to explore possible use of the lsof fork - i've removed it from here as well. Docbook I can't follow the versioning/dates clearly but sure does seem like we're a bit behind.
If the primary maintainer(s) are too busy I wonder if someone else could update to newer packages?
refind-efi, efibootmgr and autofs in particular could use a refresh - right!
thanks again.
gene
Repo CurrentPackage Vers Date Vers Date Age
usbutils 0.10 20180515 0.12 20190507 357 refind-efi 11.3 20180722 11.4 20181112 113 efibootmgr 16 20180409 17 20180610 62 autofs 5.1.4 20171219 5.1.5 20181030 315 cifs-utils 6.8 20180313 6.9 20190405 388 Docbook-xml 4.5 5.1 ? gradle 5.2.1 20190208 5.4.1 20190426 77
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