On 24/10/09 09:06AM, Genes Lists wrote: > Periodic check of Arch out of date packages. This considered are purely > my opinion of those that are sufficiently 'relevant'. Apologies to any > others. > > The really good news is that there really aren't many ! > Big congrats for the hard work keeping Arch awesome and up to date. > > Note that, some are excluded when they are work in progress and/or > involve a significant amount of work (provided they are not "too" old, > which none are). > > Arch is doing an amazing job keeping our core/key packages like > compiler tools, python, systemd, kernel and other vital packages very > up to date. Thanks for the kind words here! Also note that what sometimes gets forgotten is that Arch Packaging is done solely by volunteers who spend their free time keeping the distribution rolling! IMO this both shows the awesome effort to make this happen but also should remind us that sometimes pepoles lifes gets busy and they can't really be blamed for not following a contract or similar :D > What remains are a few that are relevant enough (imho) to make the > list. > > I am using 3 metrics of age: > > - Num-B > The number of releases we are behind > Some packages have frequent updates some do not. > > - Age > The number of days between the arch version and the latest > > - New: > How recent was the latest released (days ago from today) > > > Package Arch Curr Date num-b Age New > ------------------ ---------- ------ -------- ------ ------ ---- > apparmor 3.1.7-5 4.0.3 08/15/24 4 195 55 > biber 1:2.19-4 2.20 03/21/24 1 321 202 > dkms 3.0.12-1 3.1.0 10/01/24 2 373 8 "dkms" is currently being looked into 🤗 > python-cryptography 42.0.8-1 43.0.1 09/03/24 2 91 36 > python-setuptools 1:69.5.1-1 75.1.0 09/13/24 22 153 26 As far as I understand this will also need fixing soon once we start upgrading to python 3.13. There is an outstanding MR which does most of the work and is currently reviewed: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/python-setuptools/-/merge_requests/1 > yubioath-desktop 5.1.0-3 7.1.0 09/25/24 12 1234 14 (1) > (1) Now called yubico-authenticator I'm not sure if this will be properly fixed, so maybe the package will need to leave the repos. It currently lacks a Maintainer and the flutter rewrite is not fun to package as soon as you go the non-easy route that is just repackaging the binary (which is not up to our standards). I tried to get started with flutter packaging a while back but it seems like the upstream developers are not prioritizing getting flutter properly distributable for packaging purposes: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/129143 -- This is also maybe a good chance to point out that everybody can get involved and there are many areas that could need some help: - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Getting_involved - https://whatcanidofor.archlinux.org/ > -- > Gene Cheers, Chris / gromit
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