i thint it should be easier to let people help mantainers in software packaging. 2017-04-20 2:22 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@xxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I would be concerned, if too many security features not everybody needs, > would become default. Why not dropping security features completely and > instead making real-time optimised features the default? This is a > rhetorical question, but actually I would prefer the latter. > > In my experiences Arch is very healthy. > > I doubt that many packages are outdated. > > Right off the bat a few come to mind, e.g. > > claws-mail and clawsker > > but we had Easter holidays and some packages are already in testing. > > Other packages, such as e.g. > > ardour > > are out of date for a long time, but the maintainer explained why he has > got no time for a while. Apart from this Ardour is niche software. > > Each of the outdated packages I noticed still build using ABS or AUR > PKGBUILDs by just changing the version and skipping or changing the > checksums or they require minimal additional editing, if so I > usually drop a note to AUR comments, how to fix the issue. > > It's hard to find much more packages I consider really outdated. > I noticed that some packages from official repositories are flagged out > of date, a few minutes after upstream released a new version, so I > wouldn't count those packages. > > In my experiences Arch is a healthy rolling release. There are a few > hiccups, but I experience less hiccups using Arch, than I experience > serious issues with other distros. > > Regards, > Ralf >
