truth129 [1] filed an orphan request for devin-desktop [2]:

Requesting orphan. The package has been flagged out-of-date since
2026-07-22 (21 days) with a response from the maintainer (said
preparing update) but nothing was updated, whose last commit was
2026-07-19. The AUR is on 3.4.27-2 while upstream has shipped 3.7.16.

Beyond being behind, the published package has a user-facing bug: the
.desktop files still point at /usr/share/devin-desktop/devin-desktop,
which prepare() strips out
because we build against system electron. Launching from the app menu
or the URL handler fails with "Could not find the program". Only
launching from a terminal
works. I posted the one-line fix in the comments.

I've been maintaining an updated PKGBUILD locally and have 3.7.16
building and running cleanly against electron42, with the desktop-
entry fix and the ripgrep path change upstream made in 3.7.16
(@vscode/ripgrep to @vscode/ripgrep-universal, plus a per-platform
subdir).

If I take it over, I intend to:

- Track releases via the upstream update API and rebuild-test each one
before pushing, rather than bumping pkgver blind. Upstream relocates
vendored binaries between releases, which is what broke 3.6.22, so the
symlinks in prepare() need a real build to verify.
- Verify each .deb against the sha256 upstream publishes.
- Keep .SRCINFO regenerated with every metadata change.
- Add the missing package-sources LICENSE (0BSD) per the submission
guidelines.
- Watch the comments and respond to build reports.

No objection if the current maintainer would rather stay on and take a
co-maintainer instead. I offered that in the comments and had no
reply. Happy to withdraw this if
they resurface.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/truth129/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/devin-desktop/

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