On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ronald van Haren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 supposed to file bug reports for outdated packages.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 - allow developers to provide comments on why packages are out of date 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 - help ensure that out of date notices don't get lost in the 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 marks it out of date.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 flagged out of date.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.
Agreed.
