just to note, i deleted that .nvchecker.toml file again, and added them
to .gitignore - most packages have that now - ive not been adopting them

> we dont need these - they appear to be something that arch uses internally,
> or is related to their gitlab instance, to detect new releases upstream
> 
> it is a good idea - debian has done that for years; but are not so tooled -
> we could do it for PCR packages; but for libre packages, we are only 
> interested
> when arch publishes new package releases, not the upstream - so even if we had
> a similar checker tool or gitlab or whatever, those .nvchecker.toml files in
> libre would need to be modified to check the arch state repo instead - but 
> that
> would not account for arch32, archarm, or artix - it would make more sense for
> libre and nonsystemd to incorporate that feature into the repo importer, as we
> pull the actual repo databases regularly
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