"David C. Rankin" <drankina...@gmail.com> writes: >> 2. should AUR host out-of-date but working packages ?? >> > > There is always a sliding-scale of "How out-of-date?". Is some user of > the package just flagging it 10 minutes after the latest upstream > change? > > Is a dependency no longer supported by Arch (that's what AUR is > for...)? > > Some packages may not have been updated in quite a while, but may be > 100% valid and still good. > > This is hard to give advise on without knowing more about what you are > considering "out-of-date"?
I want to add that sometimes the maintainer might be already working on an update but didn't release it. It's easier to branch of a package and test it until merging it to the AUR sometimes.
