[arch-general] A few out of date packages

[Jude DaShiell]

tintin-alteraeon can be added to that list since it no longer builds.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Jelle van der Waa wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 03:27:45
> From: Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl>
> Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] A few out of date packages
>
> 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 That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages.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      S?bastien Luttringer
> >  TP      Tobias Powalowski
> >  AW      Alad Wenter
> >  RO      R?my 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
>
>

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