On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:36 PM Levente Polyak via aur-general <[email protected]> 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 I've myself updated several packages that were out of date (and 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 If they fail for whatever reason, your packages will still be out of date; I highly doubt you also manually keep up with all of them.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
