On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Bruno Pagani <bruno.pagani@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 25/02/2016 16:57, Harrison Wells a écrit : >> Still not clear what's the hold up. Will try to poke the maintainer on irc. > > Well, I didn’t wanted to say so at the time of the previous ask, but I > think the maintainer IS the hold up. He has quite a lot of outdated > packages: > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&maintainer=eric > > And if you look at not outdated ones, most of them are not packaged by > him. Indeed: > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&packager=eric > > And here you see that over the 6 pkgbases he updated over the last three > months, most of them were outdated for quite a long time before update, > and 3 of them are already outdated. > > Maybe he is quite busy IRL currently or anything else, but then he > should tell other devs so that someone could take care of those packages. ;) I may not know the arch process, but why is it possible for a simple version bump to be held up in a way that no other developer feels like they may take action?