Maybe the only way is waiting. I have once submitted patches of PKGBUILDs to bugs.archlinux.org, but I don't think a trivial version bump will be accepted as a valid bug, as the bug tracker says: "Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!"
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Alive 4ever <alive4e...@live.com> wrote: > Since links package has been flagged out of date for almost one month, I > can't help myself to contribute a patch and stop bugging maintainer to > package an updated version. > > I hope this is the right place to submit the patch. > > ------ > Upgrade links to version 2.13 > > Signed-off-by: Alif <alive4e...@live.com> > --- > trunk/PKGBUILD | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/trunk/PKGBUILD b/trunk/PKGBUILD > index 85ce55c..3f2a3bf 100644 > --- a/trunk/PKGBUILD > +++ b/trunk/PKGBUILD > @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ > # Maintainer: Eric BĂ©langer <e...@archlinux.org> > > pkgname=links > -pkgver=2.12 > -pkgrel=2 > +pkgver=2.13 > +pkgrel=1 > pkgdesc="A text WWW browser, similar to Lynx" > arch=('i686' 'x86_64') > url="http://links.twibright.com/" > @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ optdepends=('libx11: for using xlinks' > 'libpng: for using xlinks' > 'librsvg: for using xlinks') > source=(http://links.twibright.com/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 > links.desktop) > -sha1sums=('952dfecded9496ff1a73184ce538d08dbbb5152b' > +sha1sums=('ee5ef004723664d3928e29a603cb150db013603f' > 'f600e27c2a71184444f7dd07a10230aa44463a02') > > prepare() { > -- > 2.9.2 >