[arch-general] Please stop abusing of the out-of-date option

Andrea Scarpino andrea at archlinux.org
Thu Dec 1 08:41:27 EST 2011


Please users stop abusing of the out-of-date option.

What you SHOULDN'T do:
- report as out-of-date a package when a beta or a RC is out
- report as out-of-date a package which conflicts
- report as out-of-date a package which doesn't build
- report as out-of-date a package which is broken
- report as out-of-date a package when the mirror you use is out-of-date
- and my favorite, report as out-of-date a package which WORKS like
this one at the bottom of this mail

What you SHOULD do:
- report as out-of-date a package when a *stable* release of that package is out

Thanks.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Arch Website Notification <nobody at archlinux.org>
Date: 1 December 2011 13:39
Subject: [arch-notifications] Orphan Extra package [netkit-bsd-finger]
marked out-of-date
To: arch-notifications at archlinux.org


xxx wants to notify you that the following packages may be out-of-date:


* netkit-bsd-finger 0.17-6 [extra] (i686):
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/netkit-bsd-finger/
* netkit-bsd-finger 0.17-6 [extra] (x86_64):
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/netkit-bsd-finger/


The user provided the following additional text:

Now it works.

--2011-12-01 13:38:27--
http://mir.archlinux.fr/extra/os/x86_64/netkit-bsd-finger-0.17-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Resolving mir.archlinux.fr... 91.121.141.57
Connecting to mir.archlinux.fr|91.121.141.57|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18132 (18K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/var/cache/pacman/pkg/netkit-bsd-finger-0.17-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part'

100%[===========================================================================================>]
18,132      --.-K/s   in 0.06s

2011-12-01 13:38:27 (306 KB/s) -
`/var/cache/pacman/pkg/netkit-bsd-finger-0.17-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part'
saved [18132/18132]

-- 
Andrea


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