# Zeek and packages

**URL:** https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-and-packages/5850
**Category:** Zeek
**Created:** [October 1, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-and-packages/5850 "2019-10-01T16:28:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![James\_inthe\_box](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@James\_inthe\_box](https://community.zeek.org/u/James_inthe_box)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-and-packages/5850/1 "2019-10-01T16:28:38Z")

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Soooooo....in testing, all my third party packages are muffed (deprecated (bro\_init)). What's a reasonable time frame to start to bug package maintainers?

Thank you!

James

P.S. See you next week.

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### Author: ![JonZeolla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@JonZeolla](https://community.zeek.org/u/JonZeolla)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-and-packages/5850/2 "2019-10-01T17:40:08Z")

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Now! =)

As a maintainer of the kafka plugin we’re working on a release right now (pre-zeek rename), and plan to fix 3.0 upgrade related issues as a part of the next release (likely a 1.0.0).

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### Author: ![James\_inthe\_box](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@James\_inthe\_box](https://community.zeek.org/u/James_inthe_box)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-and-packages/5850/3 "2019-10-01T17:43:23Z")

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Pimpy..thanks Jon!

James

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### Author: ![seth](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/seth/32/642_2.png) [@seth](https://community.zeek.org/u/seth)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-and-packages/5850/4 "2019-10-03T13:22:23Z")

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+1 on that! Actually, I don't think the community would complain if you automated your complaints. 🙂

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.Seth

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-and-packages/5850/5 "2022-05-06T15:46:47Z")

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