[arch-general] Please stop abusing of the out-of-date option

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Thu Dec 1 10:06:45 EST 2011


On 12/01/2011 03:41 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
> Please users stop abusing of the out-of-date option.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 - report as out-of-date a package when a beta or a RC is out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 - report as out-of-date a package which conflicts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 - report as out-of-date a package which doesn't build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 - report as out-of-date a package which is broken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 - report as out-of-date a package when the mirror you use is out-of-date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 - and my favorite, report as out-of-date a package which WORKS like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

I can add this:

- don't report out of date packages that follow odd/even versioning scheme.

even - stable
odd - development.

This applies to all gnome modules/apps, including banshee! :D


-- 
Ionuț

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