[arch-general] A few out of date packages

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hello

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 3:08 PM Genes Lists via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> Hi - First a thank you for all the great work managing and keeping
> packages up to date. It can a significant amount of work.
>
> That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages. I've
> selected a few to highlight based on age and my own view of importance
> (no claim its a good view).
>
> There are also some packages which have been languishing in testing for
> a while (not sure the reason - I chose to ignore those here.).
>
> Here's a few that might benefit from an update:
>
>                 Repo                    Current
> Package         Vers    Date            Vers    Date            Age
> ------------    ------  --------        ------  --------        ----
> dkms            2.5     20171130        2.7.1   20190512        528
> usbutils        0.10    20180515        0.12    20190507        357
> refind-efi      11.3    20180722        11.4    20181112        113
> efibootmgr      16      20180409        17      20180610         62
> autofs          5.1.4   20171219        5.1.5   20181030        315
> lsof            4.91    20180404        4.93.2  20190508        399

Where did you find lsof version 4.93.2?

The official website does not mention current version. And the mirror
Arch uses hosts 4.91 only ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/tools/lsof/

> cifs-utils      6.8     20180313        6.9     20190405        388
> chrony          3.4     20180919        3.5     20190514        237
> Docbook-xml     4.5                     5.1                     ?
> alsa-lib        1.1.8   20190107        1.1.9   20190510        123
> Alsa-plugins    1.1.8   20190107        1.1.9   20190510        123
> Alsa-utils      1.1.8   20190107        1.1.9   20190510        123

alsa packages version 1.1.9 are in [testing] for a week now. They will
be moved to stable in a few days.

> gradle          5.2.1   20190208        5.4.1   20190426         77
>
>
> Hope this is helpful, thank you!

Thank you for the feedback! Really appreciate it.