Re: [archhurd-devel] Re: Archhurd from Spain

[Alexander Preisinger <alexander.preisinger@gmail.com>]

>> Hi Michael, Manuel, list:
>> @Manuel: I've been out of time these days so I didn't started to do it, but
>> another thing we
>> can do to help these guys is checkout packages lists at Arch Hurd's website
>> and flag out-of-date
>> those applications/libraries with new versions already released.
>> -Martín
>
> As a maintainer of a few packages, I would find this infinitely
> helpful.  We are Arch, after all, and one of our goals should be to
> keep up-to-date as a Rolling Release should.  As of now, I maintain
> only 23 packages, and I would find it a pretty daunting task to make
> sure each of them was up-to-date within, say, a week of a new release.
>  There are other devs who maintain hundreds of packages (!), and I'm
> sure they would also appreciate it.
>

I maintain more than 150 packages and flaging packages out of date
would be the most helpful for me and for others somesone can do. If
your interested in packaging yourself you can try reading the
Archlinux wiki page for Creating packages and start with easy programs
with less dependencys.