2016-09-08 16:23 GMT+02:00 Eli Schwartz via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org>:
The hook existed before makepkg gained a --printsrcinfo flag, otherwise there is no real difference. I never changed it after pacman 5.0 was released. Yeah I figured something like that would be the case.
Also, Bruno Pagani is wrong to say mksrcinfo is slower. The current *-git version of pkgbuild-introspection is actually a wrapper around makepkg, and incurs the cost of initializing makepkg (source libmakepkg and run a few things that are only relevant for building packages, etc.) but those changes have not gone into a tagged release. Meanwhile, mksrcinfo v8 is a lot slimmer. v8 also adds a header w/ a timestamp so you cannot run mksrcinfo on every commit, you have to actively check that PKGBUILD was changed, but the *-git does not do that anymore so it really doesn't matter for me.