On 02/11/2017 07:33 PM, Donovan Cameron via arch-general wrote: > Hey Britt, > > We've kind of all experienced delayed package updates and I recommend > the following, it will let it take it's natural course! > > 1.) Flag it out of date, probably is already The maintainer is certainly aware, that much is plainly evident! Flagging a package out-of-date does nothing other than make the maintainer aware, it isn't some magic oldness-slaying bullet. > 2.) Inquire with the package maintainer directly over email and offer > suggestions or to help I think we can safely assume from the tone of the email you are replying to (and, for that matter, the previous emails in this mailing list on the subject) that that has already been done. > 3.) Seek a co-maintainer or become one yourself How do you recommend someone become a co-maintainer of a package in the [extra] repo, keeping in mind that becoming a TU requires considerably more than the current maintainer's willingness to share? And TUs can only push packages to [community], not [core] and [extra] ... Please, helpful suggestions only! And keep in mind this is not the aur-general mailing list, so AUR-specific advice is not helpful (and I suspect ardour users don't want to see it dropped to the AUR either). -- Eli Schwartz
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