On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:14:16 +0100, Philipp Wolfer via aur-general wrote:
Yes, absolutely. You have to check those VCS packages yourself from time to time.
Not only in regards to new commits, but also in regards to soname issues. If somebody just wants to get a commit that fixes an issue, but later continue to use official releases, then it makes sense to edit a PKGBUILD and to drop the extension -git, -svn, -bzr etc., e.g. as I did for jack. root@ubuntu-mate:~# systemd-nspawn -qD /media/ubuntu-mate/archlinux pacman -Si jack2 | grep Ver Version : 1.9.10-4 root@ubuntu-mate:~# systemd-nspawn -qD /media/ubuntu-mate/archlinux pacman -Q jack2 jack2 1.9.10.r177.g7bdad49-1 However, if we want to build from git etc. in general, then we don't want to rebuild each package by each update, since hundreds of packages could be affected by unimportant commits or commits that break the software. Builds from git etc. should be handled wisely and not automagically. Regards, Ralf