On Thu, 5 May 2016, Doug Newgard wrote:
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 10:22:45 From: Doug Newgard <scimmia@archlinux.info> Reply-To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general@archlinux.org> To: aur-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [aur-general] out of date packages?
On Thu, 5 May 2016 10:14:13 -0400 Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/05/2016 09:16 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
What are proper criteria for flagging a package out of date? My reason for asking has to do with: http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/
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Well, it is currently flagged out of date: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttytter/
But I don't know why, since upstream is apparently dead and the community package is already on the latest (ancient) upstream release.
Is this because it got forked to continue support? I think that qualifies as new software, and therefore a new package.
You're right, but people can flag it out of date for whatever reason they want (and doing this a lot causes maintainers to ignore the flag). In this case, yes, it is because of a fork.
The fork is called oysttyer and was taken over by the oysttyer organization and the original author created another package called texapp to run on the adn social network. --