[aur-general] Package search for community repo

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Jul 22 20:12:41 EDT 2009


Eric Bélanger wrote:
> 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 if a package is out of date or broken.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 "Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in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 Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the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 REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!".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 the recommended way of notifying TU's of an outdated package (mailing list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 The 'flag out of date' option for community still works (unless it was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 out-of-date or not.
>   

It works only the first time as updating does not reset it...

Allan





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