[arch-general] bitcoin-qt out-of-date

[Diego Viola]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/01/2016 02:20 PM, Diego Viola wrote:
>> Well, I understand maintainers are busy, but it is your job as a
>> maintainer to communicate effectively, if I put some package up for
>> others to use it, it is MY responsibility to tell users I won't be
>> able to update or respond quickly.
>>
>> You can't expect all your users to maintain their own PKGBUILD for
>> outdated packages just because some maintainer is busy or being lazy.
>
> As an AUR maintainer, I try to update as soon as I can. And I think I do
> a pretty good job with that.
>
> But not everyone can, because not everyone has the time. And 10 days is
> not a lot of time to allow for Real Life interference.
>
> Standard Arch Linux policy is "don't bug the TUs, they will get around
> to updating things when they have the chance".
>
> More TUs is the only conceivable solution to the problem of "the current
> group of TUs don't, as a group, have the spare time to update all
> packages, immediately upon being flagged out of date".
> So, what exactly is your problem with the TUs having a life out of Arch
> Linux (which they have no obligation to and contribute to on a purely
> voluntary basis)?

No, I'm not saying that, please let's not make this personal, it's not.

I'm also OK compiling my own bitcoin-qt or whatever, I'm just
concerned there are many outdated packages as of late, and what makes
Arch so special to many people is the rolling release part and up to
date packages.

>
> Personally, I think as a general rule of thumb the TUs do a great job at
> maintaining a distro that is significantly less obsolete than the
> majority of other distros. And I don't get upset when a relative handful
> of packages lag behind *less than on the aforementioned alternative
> distros*.
>
> --
> Eli Schwartz

Thanks,
Diego