[arch-general] bitcoin-qt out-of-date
Sean Greenslade
sean at seangreenslade.com
Mon Sep 5 18:11:05 UTC 2016
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:48:37AM +0800, Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Kwang Moo Yi via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> > On 01/09/16 20:32, Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general wrote:
> >
> >> Yep that's my expectation. There were several times, that a new version
> >> with important fixes (fix for YouTube downloading, etc.) was released, and
> >> lots of people came to our issue tracker for "broken" YouTube downloading
> >> because the Arch version was not updated yet.
> >>
> >
> > In this case, wouldn't it suite better to be in the AUR always?
>
>
> From "Rules of submission" section on Arch Wiki: [1]
>
> Check the official package database <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/>
> for the package. If *any version* of it exists, *do not* submit the
> package. If the official package is out-of-date, flag it as such.
>
> I'm not sure whether my case is an exception to this rule or not.
Are the actual releases of youtube-dl particularly more stable than the
-git versions? I myself only use the -git package from the AUR, and have
never had an issue with it. If this is the case, then I think the
current situation is probably fine (-git in AUR, "stable" in official
repos).
--Sean
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