This was likely one of the most annoying issues with pacaur, equally as a user, AUR maintainer, and TU. pacaur would explicitely check if the information from the RPC/.SRCINFO matches the PKGBUILD, with an exception for VCS packages.
As stated by the previous maintainer, this was not for technical reasons - pacaur already uses makepkg --packagelist - but to "improve metadata on the AUR". From experience, it has improved nothing - apart from increasing the amount of pointless complaints to AUR maintainers. See for example, gstreamer0.10-base.
This was likely one of the most annoying issues with pacaur, equally as a user, AUR maintainer, and TU.
pacaurwould explicitely check if the information from the RPC/.SRCINFO matches the PKGBUILD, with an exception for VCS packages.As stated by the previous maintainer, this was not for technical reasons -
pacauralready usesmakepkg --packagelist- but to "improve metadata on the AUR". From experience, it has improved nothing - apart from increasing the amount of pointless complaints to AUR maintainers. See for example, gstreamer0.10-base.