PSA: Arch Linux removed the ability to flag packages

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Greetings,

I assume this is only temporary, but right now users can no longer flag packages out of date in the main Arch repos. However, you can still flag AUR packages out of date. I went to flag mutter out of date today since a new release for 50.3 came out, which is something I did very recently with gnome-shell as well, but the flag out of date feature is removed. Just thought anyone might want to know.

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AUR in general has come quite ‘unglued’… it’s sad.

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Official packages have a bot for some time now that notifies maintainers of a new package version. It’s most likely not needed anymore. For example, see mutter: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/mutter/-/work_items/26

50.3 is not reported yet, but the bot will probably run today at some point and notify.

Gives all the informations you need:

{
  "pkgbase": "mutter",
  "status": "success",
  "message": null,
  "local_version": "50.1",
  "upstream_version": "50.2",
  "out_of_date": true
}
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Removal of the flag out of date button had been in the pipeline since May:

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Here you go :wink: