[arch-general] Wget in Extra is out-of-date for more than two months

[Carsten Mattner]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Bruno Pagani <bruno.pagani at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Le 25/02/2016 16:57, Harrison Wells a écrit :
>> Still not clear what's the hold up. Will try to poke the maintainer on irc.
>
> Well, I didn’t wanted to say so at the time of the previous ask, but I
> think the maintainer IS the hold up. He has quite a lot of outdated
> packages:
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&maintainer=eric
>
> And if you look at not outdated ones, most of them are not packaged by
> him. Indeed:
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&packager=eric
>
> And here you see that over the 6 pkgbases he updated over the last three
> months, most of them were outdated for quite a long time before update,
> and 3 of them are already outdated.
>
> Maybe he is quite busy IRL currently or anything else, but then he
> should tell other devs so that someone could take care of those packages. ;)


I may not know the arch process, but why is it possible for a simple
version bump to be held up in a way that no other developer feels
like they may take action?