[aur-general] Package search for community repo

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Daniel J
Griffiths<ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
> Ronuk Raval wrote:
>>
>> On July 22, 2009 06:58:31 pm Daniel J Griffiths wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Community has a bugtracker, which should (ideally) be used to notify us
>>> if a package is out of date or broken.
>>>
>>
>> Right now the Flyspray for [community] has a rather clear notice that
>> says:
>> "Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in
>> Unsupported. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the
>> Mailing List.
>>
>> REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!".
>>
>> Shouldn't that notice be updated to reflect current changes. What would be
>> the recommended way of notifying TU's of an outdated package (mailing list
>> or bugtracker?).
>>
>>
>>
>
> Personal opinion... Update the bugtracker to reflect the lack of a 'flag out
> of date' option for community anymore, use bugtracker for anything related
> to community packages. The TUs as a whole need to use the bugtracker more
> anyway. (Wonder, back me up here)
>

The 'flag out of date' option for community still works (unless it was
disabled).  Users just need to check the package version in the repo
instead of the version displayed in AUR to know if a package is
out-of-date or not.