On 2021-06-15 14:30, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote:
How do you stay on top of package updates? Do you have any hand rolled scripts to check for updates or do you use existing tooling?
To elaborate on what my initial posts said about this... For the most part I am subscribed to upstream release announcements for the projects I package. By far the bulk of the version bumps I make are caught this way. If I can't attend to it when I see the GitHub or other notification come across I flag the AUR packages as OOD myself as a reminder to get back to them. For those that don't have an effective way to get notified by upstream, I occasionally check through my package sets using Repology and locally scan via aur-out-of-date. The later isn't very useful since it mostly finds ones that have GitHub sources that I'm notified about anyway, but Repology can be useful for catching others.
Ooooohh, backfire 😃!
Just a friendly poke. I was pretty annoyed but I'm sure it was an honest mistake. The tooling around AUR deletions also leaves a bit to be desired. Silently keeping the repo itself but loosing all the comment, vote, and maintainer meta data is not ideal.