[aur-general] TU application for Caleb, aka alerque

[Caleb Maclennan]

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scan via aur-out-of-date.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.