How can I request a package to be updated?

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I’ve found a way to request packages, but is there also a way to request a package update?

I want Emacspeak-60 and only Emacspeak-59 is available.

I’ve found an email to the maintainer, but I feel it’s not the right to just send him an email;)

What is the proper procedure to reach him or put the request out there?

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I would suggest making an issue about the package being outdated and ping the maintainer in it. It’s possible they haven’t gotten around to it yet for one reason or another. You could also consider sending a pull request to update it yourself.

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First thing would be to check nixpkgs’s PRs to see if the update has been proposed yet, and would be waiting for reviews.

In this case, there is already emacsPackages.emacspeak: 59.0 -> 60.0 by r-ryantm · Pull Request #315408 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub, which apparently fails to build and would require extra work to complete. If you are interested in seeing this through, you could help updating that PR so it can get merged, or ping the maintainer over there.

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Thanks, but I don’t see that it fails to build. It says all tests passed, except three skipped.

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Indeed it appears to build fine but @AndersonTorres pointed out an issue when actually executing it. That needs to be fixed first.

Please test the PR and try reproducing the issue too, perhaps it’s just their particular setup causing it.