[arch-general] A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers

[Billy Morgan]

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From: *Billy Morgan* <2021bmorgan at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, 1 November 2021
Subject: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers
To: arch-security at lists.archlinux.org


Having far outdated packages is a security issue so I will include security
as well.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Billy Morgan* <2021bmorgan at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, 1 November 2021
Subject: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers
To: anthraxx at archlinux.org, aaron at archlinux.org, jvinet at zeroflux.org


Today a post was made on the subreddit about a massive amount of packages
being flagged outdated a very long time ago. It was nuked almost
immediately and linked to an older thread with a non-answer. This cannot be
brushed under the rug. It is not just random packages that are far out of
date but even core ones.

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc/
<https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%2Fcore%2Fx86_64%2Fgcc%2F>
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc-libs/
<https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%2Fcore%2Fx86_64%2Fgcc-libs%2F>
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc-go/
<https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%2Fcore%2Fx86_64%2Fgcc-go%2F>
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/glibc/
<https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%2Fcore%2Fx86_64%2Fglibc%2F>
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dhcpcd/
<https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%2Fcore%2Fx86_64%2Fdhcpcd%2F>
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/binutils/
<https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages%2Fcore%2Fx86_64%2Fbinutils%2F>

Even gnome-shell and others are far out of date.

Why are there still maintainers/Trusted Users that haven't been signed in
for 5 months holding packages hostage?

Please communicate with your userbase. We care and want to help.

See this thread. I was forced to move that persons post to 4chan because it
got nuked on the subreddit.

https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/84101500

Thank you