[aur-general] Trusted user application: Drew DeVault

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:36 PM Levente Polyak via aur-general
<aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 2/28/19 3:33 PM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> >
> > We have TUs with hundreds of packages. Beyond automatic checks, do you
> > really expect they keep up with every single release?
> > I've myself updated several packages that were out of date (and
> > unflagged) in [community]. I'm not saying the attitude *should* be "I
> > don't give a damn", but in practice, I don't believe this expectation
> > you mention is in place (and moreover, I reiterate that I do not think
> > there should be such an expectation when it can very efficiently be
> > offloaded to scripts and users).
> >
> > J. Leclanche
> >
>
> Indeed I am, there are tools like urlwatch, nvchecker and other to
> easily get diffs of what changed and those are in the responsibility of
> the maintainer to be aware of until our automatic system spec is not
> finished and finalized.
>
> TL;DR: yes, i do.
>
> sincerely,
> Levente

Those are "automatic checks". I'm not sure what you're getting at. If
they fail for whatever reason, your packages will still be out of
date; I highly doubt you also manually keep up with all of them.

J. Leclanche