[arch-general] Official releases from upstream

[Daniel Micay]

On 23/11/14 04:35 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while for virtualbox Arch Linux does follow upstream, even while there
> is a critical known USB issue, for Claws Mail, where AFAIK isn't a
> critical issue, it doesn't follow upstream.
> 
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:07:22 +0000
> noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:
>> The latest release is v. 3.11.1, what can you observe with that?
> 
> "Stable release	3.11.1 (October 27, 2014; 23 days ago)" -
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_Mail
> 
> "Latest Release: 3.11.1 (News), on 27 October 2014" -
> http://www.claws-mail.org/news.php
> 
> $ pacman -Si claws-mail | grep Ver
> Version        : 3.11.0-2
> 
> ;)
> 
> I try to understand this, but I can't understand it. Is there latitude
> for the maintainers to decide what is an official release from upstream
> and what isn't?
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> PS:
> The Claws package isn't a problem for me.
> $ pacman -Q claws-mail-git
> claws-mail-git 3.11.1.r26.g00cade7-1
> But the virtualbox package is really an annoyance.

Packages are updated when the maintainers have time to do it.

This crappy trolling isn't helping your case.

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