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> We can use heuristics in many cases to determine whether an updater
> applies to a package; most of the time, that=E2=80=99s only based on the =
URL,
> and it might also work for many cgit instances=E2=80=94those that have =
=E2=80=9C/cgit=E2=80=9D
> in their URL.
>
> Then again, I expect that a growing number of packages will be obtained
> through =E2=80=98git-fetch=E2=80=99, and the updater for such a thing is =
trivial
> (interestingly it=E2=80=99s not yet implemented though :-)).
>
> So I feel like at present we don=E2=80=99t have strong evidence that that=
 the
> simple URL-based approach would not scale.

Agreed! Better to not complicate things beyond what is necessary at this
point. I am not confident that good heuristics exist. But, if we do use
git-fetch for the majority of our packages, like you said, updating will
be trivial.

I will proceed with the lint check as discussed earlier.