[aur-general] out of date packages?

[Doug Newgard]

On Thu, 5 May 2016 10:14:13 -0400
Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/05/2016 09:16 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > What are proper criteria for flagging a package out of date?  My reason 
> > for asking has to do with:
> > http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> >   
> 
> Well, it is currently flagged out of date:
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttytter/
> 
> But I don't know why, since upstream is apparently dead and the
> community package is already on the latest (ancient) upstream release.
> 
> Is this because it got forked to continue support? I think that
> qualifies as new software, and therefore a new package.
> 

You're right, but people can flag it out of date for whatever reason they want
(and doing this a lot causes maintainers to ignore the flag). In this case,
yes, it is because of a fork.