Example: 1977025 – kitty-0.24.1 is available
The last packaged version was released on Jun 27, 2021 and there have been several upstream versions since then.
As a user, what else could/should one do to help bring about an update to such a package?
Example: 1977025 – kitty-0.24.1 is available
The last packaged version was released on Jun 27, 2021 and there have been several upstream versions since then.
As a user, what else could/should one do to help bring about an update to such a package?
We have this policy
Other options:
If you’re not a package maintainer, you’ll have to use these instructions:
As a long term goal, measure the time and effort needed to submit an update for review, and simplify the process.
There’s a lot of work on-going to simplify packaging already, but there’s no substitute for understanding the build system etc.
Chiming in on posts saying “you should do this” doesn’t help. It’s all very well to say “do this”, but it’s always preferable in the community to say “I think this can be improved, so I’ll go ahead and work on it”. So if you have concrete ideas of improvement, please work on implementing them to help the community. Even just starting a discussion on the the correct channels with ideas would be a good step to take
Says “you should do this” post.