[aur-general] [PATCH] core/links:Bump to version 2.13

[Chi Hsuan Yen]

At least aur-general is not the place. It's dedicated to AUR package
discussions and TU elections, not for official packages. Maybe arch-general
or arch-dev-public is the way to go.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Alive 4ever <alive4ever at live.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:45:18AM +0800, Chi Hsuan Yen via aur-general
> wrote:
> > Maybe the only way is waiting. I have once submitted patches of PKGBUILDs
> > to bugs.archlinux.org, but I don't think a trivial version bump will be
> > accepted as a valid bug, as the bug tracker says: "Do NOT report bugs for
> > outdated packages!"
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Alive 4ever <alive4ever at live.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Since links package has been flagged out of date for almost one month,
> I
> > > can't help myself to contribute a patch and stop bugging maintainer to
> > > package an updated version.
> > >
> > > I hope this is the right place to submit the patch.
> > >
> > > ------
> > > Upgrade links to version 2.13
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alif <alive4ever at live.com>
> > > ---
> > >  trunk/PKGBUILD | 6 +++---
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/trunk/PKGBUILD b/trunk/PKGBUILD
> > > index 85ce55c..3f2a3bf 100644
> > > --- a/trunk/PKGBUILD
> > > +++ b/trunk/PKGBUILD
> > > @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
> > >  # Maintainer: Eric Bélanger <eric at archlinux.org>
> > >
> > >  pkgname=links
> > > -pkgver=2.12
> > > -pkgrel=2
> > > +pkgver=2.13
> > > +pkgrel=1
> > >  pkgdesc="A text WWW browser, similar to Lynx"
> > >  arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
> > >  url="http://links.twibright.com/"
> > > @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ optdepends=('libx11: for using xlinks'
> > >             'libpng: for using xlinks'
> > >             'librsvg: for using xlinks')
> > >  source=(http://links.twibright.com/download/${
> pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
> > > links.desktop)
> > > -sha1sums=('952dfecded9496ff1a73184ce538d08dbbb5152b'
> > > +sha1sums=('ee5ef004723664d3928e29a603cb150db013603f'
> > >            'f600e27c2a71184444f7dd07a10230aa44463a02')
> > >
> > >  prepare() {
> > > --
> > > 2.9.2
> > >
>
> It's right. Development isn't just fixing bugs. Development also
> involves making improvements.
>
> The Arch Linux Flyspray bugtracker is just about one side of Arch Linux
> development: fixing bugs.
>
> Making improvement should be discussed in a development mailing list and
> I think this is the only place suitable for discussing Arch Linux
> development, mostly regarding improvements.
>
> * For the newly elected TU, can you help with packaging new 'links'
> * package, so that it's available from the repository, at least make a
> * staging to test repository.
>