[arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

[Loui Chang]

On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Xavier Chantry
> <chantry.xavier at gmail.com>wrote:
> > 2010/3/11 David C. Rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>:
> > > I just posted the new PKGBUILD files as 'comments' to the AUR
> > > package and sent Chris (the maintainer) an email telling him what
> > > I'd done.  Hopefully he can move cut and paste the new package
> > > versions and md5sums into the official PKGBUILD files and remove
> > > the out-of-date flag.
> >
> > You should probably have done the opposite :
> > - in AUR comments, just quickly state what needs to be changed / fixed
> > - in the email , include the proper attachments
> >
> > Pasting a pkgbuild in aur comments is ugly, takes a lot of space and
> > usually screws up the formatting enough to make it unusable in a very
> > confusing way.
>
> Sometimes pasting the pkgbuild in comments is the only solution, especially
> with lazy maintainers. :/ I've used a share posted that way, and a copy and
> paste seemed to work fine. Not that it will always work though, I still
> agree its bad practice, but short of another solution it is necessary at
> times.

Use a pastebin or something instead.