[arch-general] Please update the Cinnamon packages

[mike lojkovic]

Might he be waiting on Linux Mint 18.2 to be released before updating? (all
of the major bugs should be fixed by then)

On Jun 21, 2017 11:39 PM, "Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi via arch-general" <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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 out-of-date for a while now.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.
> >
>