On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 07:04:35PM -0400, Loui Chang wrote:
> On Tue 12 Apr 2011 15:16 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > I'm not subscribed to new package notifications but it seems like AUR
> > this feature has been disabled for a while now. At least, I did neither
> > find a cronjob running "newpackage-notify" nor the "tupkgs.conf"
> > configuration file that is required to run this script. Browsing the
> > aur-dev archives, I also found a mail [1] from 2008 reporting that the
> > cronjob was obviously disabled.
> > 
> > Do we still need this at all?
> > 
> > Given that there were no complaints for more than two years and that
> > there's a RSS feed [2] for new packages, I'd say we can drop the
> > notification script as well as the field on the account page.
> > 
> > Objections?
> > 
> > [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2008-June/000323.html
> > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/rss.php
> 
> Yeah I would kill, or alter anything that requires tupkgs. That was
> based on the old scripts that TUs used before switching to devtools.

Done. I decided to just remove new package notification foo.

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