[arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

[Lauri Niskanen]

On 06/26/2010 11:05 AM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
> 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.

I'm sorry. I didn't want to complain. I wanted to get information about 
the status of the packages. I wanted to know that you know. It might 
have been so that the packages had been forgotten. Note that wine is 
marked as orphan.

I am not deciding whether or not we should update to 1.2 release 
candidate. Not updating to it was just something abnormal as the earlier 
Wine updates (to the [unstable] 1.1.x development versions) had been so 
quick.

-- 
Ape <Lauri Niskanen>