[arch-general] Please update the Cinnamon packages

[Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi]

I see Cinnamon is back on track according to the official releases.

Thank you (and congratulations) to the packagers.

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:33 AM, Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi <marc.2377 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I highly doubt it, since it's up-to-date in Antergos (although I suspect
> it's an automated build)
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:16 AM, mike lojkovic via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> 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 out-of-date for a while now.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.
>> > >
>> >
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