[arch-general] Please update the Cinnamon packages

[Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi]

Good morning,

With Cinnamon 3.4.2 released 2 days ago, the version available in the
official repository is now 3 releases behind.

I exhort those in charge to please give this matter some attention.

Thanks.

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 4:44 AM, Marcelo Ranolfi <marc.2377 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> Our Cinnamon packages, from maintainer Alexandre Filgueiras (
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=faidoc), have been
> out-of-date for a while now.
>
> Someone asked on Reddit a month ago about this (https://www.reddit.com/r/
> archlinux/comments/6axs8n/to_alexandre_filgueria_why_is_cinnamon_34_not/)
> and was informed that the packages are up-to-date in Antergos. I appreciate
> that Mr. Filgueira is the founder and project leader for Antergos.
>
> Since the Cinnamon packages are currently lagging 5 months behind official
> releases, I'd like to ask Mr Filgueira to either step up and update the
> packages, or possibily consider handing over the maintanership in the best
> interest of the community. The Cinnamon DE is developing fast, and a rather
> large number of quirks are fixed each release.
>
> There's a git version in AUR, but it's basically broken (the PKGBUILD
> themselves, and the sources - it's dev version after all). I'd create
> another AUR package myself for the most up-to-date version, but we have a
> policy of not doing that for official packages. Anyway, I would volunteer
> to maintain Cinnamon, if needed.
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>