[arch-general] A few out of date packages

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 02/11/20 at 06:58pm, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thank you again for all the great work managing and keeping
> packages up to date. It is a significant amount of work and continues
> to make Arch a really standout distro.
> 
> That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages.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).
> 
> So, here's a few that might benefit from an update:
>                                                    Cal Pkg
> Name        Vers     Updt   Flag   CVers   Date    Age Age Pkger
> ----------- -------- ------ ------ ------- ------ ---- --- -----
> thunderbird 68.4.2   200126 200211 68.5.0  200210  16  15 LP
> bash        5.0.011  191118 200208 5.0.016 200207  85  81 EF
> fail2ban    0.10.5   200112 200112 0.11.1  200111  30  -1 FY
> ipset       7.4      191202 200109 7.5     200109  71  38 SL
> samba       4.10.10  191114 191101 4.11.6  200128  89  75 TP
> smbclient   4.10.10  191114 191101 4.11.6  200128  89  75 TP
> ebtables    2.0.10_4 181113 191203 2.0.11  190212 455 384 EF
> biber       1:2.13   191101 191202 2.14    191201 102  30 RO
> diffstat    1.62     190106 191130 1.63    191129 401 327 AW
> libelf      0.177    191118 191128 0.178   191126  85   8 EF
> elfutils    0.177    191118 191128 0.178   191126  85   8 EF
> refind-efi  0.11.3   180723 181119 0.11.4  191112 568 112 TP [1]
> 
> [1] 0.11.5 looks to be coming out soon
> 
>   Cal Age = days since last update
>   Pkg Age = days between current and arch release
>   Cvers = Current version
> 
> Packagers
>  EF      Evangelos Foutras
>  FY      Felix Yan
>  SL      Sébastien Luttringer
>  TP      Tobias Powalowski
>  AW      Alad Wenter
>  RO      Rémy Oudompheng
>  LP      Levente Polyak
> 
> The packages that really standout to me are refind-efi and samba.
> 
> Hopefully this is useful. Thanks and happy updating!

Be aware that packagers might be busy, have limited time or various
rebuilds need to happen. For samba for example there is an updated
version in [testing]. For libelf, a rebuild is required which might make
sense to wait until binutils has support for debuginfod so we don't have
to rebuild it twice. [1]

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65406

-- 
Jelle van der Waa
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