[pacman-dev] Inconsistency of makepkg's activities in devel_check()

[Xavier]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> And likely check() in the future... (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15145).
>   Adding a fetch() function would allow us to easily fix FS#13727
> (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13727), where devel_update() is run before
> checking makedepends.
> From experience, someone needs to provide a PKGBUILD prototype for us to
> discuss or this suggestion would go nowhere...
>

How do we deal with the newpkgver stuff?
should the fetch function overrides pkgver itself or something?
This is weird..