On Sat, 31 May 2014 at 15:18:20, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 31.05.2014 12:04, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > > Trusted Users now have the ability to overwrite packages without > > changing ownership. This allows for adding small fixes to PKGBUILDs > > without disowning the package. > > This sounds like it is bound to cause regressions. > > I keep my aur packages in a git repo and if updates come I do my work > there. Ninja edits will only really be useful if the maintainer isn't > responsive so chances are they won't even notice the edit. Next time > they bump the package they probably won't add the ninja edit so it will > be lost. >
Agreed, I will discard this patch. The feature can still be added after switching to Git repositories. Users will then notice ninja edits because Git refuses to do non-fast-forwards by default (and non-fast-forwards will be disabled on the server anyway).
