[arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

[Burlynn Corlew Jr]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Ionuț Bîru <biru.ionut at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/26/2010 10:28 AM, Lauri Niskanen wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>
> hi
>
>
>  it is stable enough for Arch and 1.0.1 is just too out date.
>>
>> Please update vlc to 1.1.0 and Wine to 1.2-rc5.
>>
>
> rc version doesn't belong in our official extra. it would be updated to 1.2
> when is actually released
>
> vlc is already commited in trunk by me but i'm waiting a reply from the
> upstream developer of libva. I don't have any issue releases vlc without
> hardware decoding and i guess you want that too no?
>
> --
> Ionuț
>

I learned a long time ago if our dev's are holding packages back it is for a
legitimate reason. If you dont like it, build it from source. Its your
machine, nobody says you have to wait for official packages. People that
complain about packages not being updated in my opinion tend to not spend
enough time investigating why or are too lazy too solve their own problems.
Show me another distro that provides binaries as new as Arch. Keep track of
upstream issues, understand what gets included in standard arch repos, learn
how to bump versions on your own via PKGBUILD's if you really need it, or
stop complaining. Depending on such a small group of dev's and maintainers
to solve every update issue you have is asking too much and frankly
ridiculous.