Good morning, With Cinnamon 3.4.2 released 2 days ago, the version available in the official repository is now 3 releases behind. I exhort those in charge to please give this matter some attention. Thanks. On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 4:44 AM, Marcelo Ranolfi <marc.2377@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good morning, > > Our Cinnamon packages, from maintainer Alexandre Filgueiras ( > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=faidoc), have been > out-of-date for a while now. > > Someone asked on Reddit a month ago about this (https://www.reddit.com/r/ > archlinux/comments/6axs8n/to_alexandre_filgueria_why_is_cinnamon_34_not/) > and was informed that the packages are up-to-date in Antergos. I appreciate > that Mr. Filgueira is the founder and project leader for Antergos. > > Since the Cinnamon packages are currently lagging 5 months behind official > releases, I'd like to ask Mr Filgueira to either step up and update the > packages, or possibily consider handing over the maintanership in the best > interest of the community. The Cinnamon DE is developing fast, and a rather > large number of quirks are fixed each release. > > There's a git version in AUR, but it's basically broken (the PKGBUILD > themselves, and the sources - it's dev version after all). I'd create > another AUR package myself for the most up-to-date version, but we have a > policy of not doing that for official packages. Anyway, I would volunteer > to maintain Cinnamon, if needed. > > Thanks for your consideration. >
