On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Daenyth Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not much we can do about this in AUR. I wonder why users are not >> supposed to file bug reports for outdated packages. I think it would >> actually help people gauge how important certain packages are. >> >> It would: >> - be globally readable and writable. >> - allow users to post updated PKGBUILDs. >> - allow developers to provide comments on why packages are out of date >> - help ensure that out of date notices don't get lost in the >> maintainer's mountain of other email, or wherever they go. > I am in favor of this. Or maybe instead of having people report it in > that manner, have archweb automatically file a bug report when a user > marks it out of date. >
why? The maintainer gets automatically notified when a package is flagged out of date. If no maintainer is set a message is send to the arch-dev mailing list. IMHO it would be really annoying to clutter the bugtracker with such reports. Ronald
