From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmQw3-0006oz-VX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:38:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB4F3E0817; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from castor.sshunet.nl (castor.sshunet.nl [145.97.192.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD845E0817 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by castor.sshunet.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5977F57C00E for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:38:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at castor.sshunet.nl Received: from castor.sshunet.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (castor.sshunet.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id g6PmFyGiLf04 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:38:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [145.97.222.37] (37pc222.sshunet.nl [145.97.222.37]) by castor.sshunet.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:38:29 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AAB84BC.5070804@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:23:40 +0200 From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090830) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> In-Reply-To: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 96f55dc9-6887-4e3d-8a78-e5b661555e7a X-Archives-Hash: c6e9dca76be832a6a7b0e29de1e06dda -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hello there! > > > Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a > table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is > per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first places > people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about, besides > Wikpedia and ${distro}.org. > > The freshness of these 200 packages have influence on how people > perceive Gentoo on DistroWatch. While the tree as a whole is what we > should keep as up to date as possible keeping these 200 packages (list > further down) up to date can therefore be of particular importance. > > From a quick look at the table these packages seem to need extra care in > Gentoo: > > cups (1.4.0) 1.3.11 <-- latest in Gentoo unstable/testing > koffice (2.0.2) 1.6.3 There has been koffice-meta-2.0.2 for a while. > mysql (5.1.38) 5.0.84 > perl (5.10.1) 5.8.8 > php (5.3.0) 5.2.10 > samba (3.4.1) 3.3.7 Marijn - -- If you cannot read my mind, then listen to what I say. Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML , #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqrhLwACgkQp/VmCx0OL2xRjQCfUPpebxYVEaUC2aMAgFGOm8ov Y/oAoLWiRr4kXCsS/JCFb6R5mleJKCqi =DENW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----