[arch-general] what is the procedure when your find an out-of-date package in AUR?

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 23:52:37 CET 2010


On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 16:45 -0500, Loui Chang wrote:
> On Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:50 -0600, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
> >
> > 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.
+1 to this. While following this thread I was actually considering
whether it would be useful for posts in the AUR to have 'attachments'
like in most online forums. Then I realized I'd forgotten pastebins...



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