[arch-general] A few out of date packages

[Mike Cloaked]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 6:46 PM Levente Polyak via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 2/12/20 12:58 AM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote:
> > 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
> > ----------- -------- ------ ------ ------- ------ ---- --- -----
>

snip


> > 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
> >
>
> Hi gene,
>
> thanks for taking time and trying to improve something in our distro,
> however I believe your numbers are, lets say: suboptimal
>
> snip
>


> Actually what does thunderbird even do on this list? I guess because its
> "Age" is 15? Which exactly proves my point above:
> Version 68.5.0, first offered to channel users on February 11, 2020
> which was exactly 1 day ago.
>
> On top this data set is inconsistent, thunderbird was released 200211
> and not as listed 200210 plus refind-efi was not released 191112 but
> 181112 and I didn't even check any other numbers besides those two.
>
> cheers,
> Levente
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.11.4/
> https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.5.0/releasenotes/
>
>
refind-efi has now been released and the source tarball can be obtained
from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.11.5/refind-src-0.11.5.tar.gz/download

-- 
mike c