[arch-general] arch health

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 04/19/17 at 06:55pm, ITwrx.org wrote:
> On 04/19/2017 06:32 PM, Dragon ryu via arch-general wrote:
> > 2017/04/20 午前8:30 "ITwrx.org" <info at itwrx.org>:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Wait, actual question is about PIE?
> > If you find that package are outdated in community or extra, file a bug rep.
> > Why not do it?
> >
> no, PIE is just one of the examples i listed of symptoms of a larger
> issue that i thought might could be helped by paying devs and
> modernizing the donation system.

PIE is blocked by upstream because of this bug iirc. [1]

> why would i file a bug for an out of
> date package? i'm sure the developer is notified when a package is
> flagged? why should i pester them to update it?

You don't and it's counterproductive, just flag it out of date.
Currently you might experience packages being updated a lot slower since
we have a lot of big invasive rebuilds; OpenSSL 1.1, LLVM 4.0.
Especially the OpenSSL rebuild was painful and time consuming.

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21090

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Jelle van der Waa
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