On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Mathieu Clabaut <mathieu.clabaut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > what is the policy for extra out-of-date packages. > I'm thinking about eclipse and antlr.... > The first one gave birth to its AUR up to date counterpart : eclipse-bin, > and I've got an antlr3 package at hand, but I do not want to make it in AUR > without knowing if it is good practice. > > Those package are flagged as out-of-date. > The bts policy is to not open bug for such a request, so as a last resort, > I send this mail... > > There was already some discussion about this problem in the end of 2007; > see http://readlist.com/lists/archlinux.org/arch/1/6979.html > > Thank you for any tip. > > PS. I've seen at least one user leaving arch because of such out-dated > packages.... (In french : http://linuxfr.org/~chicha/26802.html) > > -mathieu please check http://archlinux.org/news/397/