[aur-general] Updating AUR versions server side

[Jeremy Audet]

> > [...] I believe the .SRCINFO file was added so that the AUR could discover a PKGBUILD's version without needing to evaluate arbitrary scripts.
>
> As far as I know the AUR did not, at any point, evaluate arbitrary
> scripts to retrieve metadata. It did parse (or attempt to...) the
> PKGBUILD.
>
> See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/.SRCINFO
>
> Alad

You're right. I should've spent a minute reading the Arch Wiki page on .SRCINFO files before writing that, instead of working from memory.