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 <[email protected]> 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 outdated packages!"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 <[email protected]> > 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 Since links package has been flagged out of date for almost one month, 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 <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > 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 <[email protected]> > > > > > > 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. >
