[arch-general] Bug reports for out of date packages?

[Ondřej Kučera]

Hi,

Arch's packages usually (almost always) get updated pretty fast and the 
system "don't create a bug report, just flag the package out of date to 
get dev's/TU's attention" works fine. But sometimes there exist packages 
both in community and in extra (I'm not sure about core but maybe even 
there) that don't get updated even after a significant time from the 
upstream's release (e. g. swt, amarok, jre or jdk from the nearest 
past). Shouldn't there be a time limit (two weeks? a month?) after which 
it would be OK to create a bug report? That way there could be a 
discussion about why that package hasn't/couldn't be updated and 
everyone would know where to look for the reasons without having to go 
through mailing list archives, bbs and so on.

Just a thought though.

Ondřej


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Cheers,
Ondřej Kučera