[arch-general] outdated packages

[Tom K]

Juan Diego wrote:
> Good day everyone
>
> I have a suggestion.
>
> if you take a look at the packages in aur, most of them are always up
> to date, the reason that I can find is the "flag out-of-date" feature,
> this is very interesting because in aur you also have the possibility
> to propose a new PKGBUILD ( in the comments) that would set the
> package as up to date and usually the maintainer just have to check
> that everything is ok with the PKGBUILD and do copy-paste.
>
> is it possible to have something similar for core, extra and community repos?
>
> I know you can submit a bug, but at least in my case I got lazy to do
> that because is not a simple process, but in aur I do it frequently
> because you just have to press a simple button.
>
> Have a nice day
>
>   

Actually, you can't submit a bug. Submit bugs for broken packages only - 
out-of-date does not mean broken.

Flag the package out-of-date, and if you wish, submit an updated 
PKGBUILD to the maintainer by email (unless you're too lazy for that too).

T.