Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?
* Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> [24-06/29=Sa 22:48 -0400]:
> Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears
> *nowhere* else in the entire email, and it completely moves the goalposts.
"Upstream" was a misleading misnomer intended to refer to anything
... well, "upstream" of the OP's system. The OP didn't realize
that 'upstream' has essentially become a term of art in package
management, referring to whence code comes before it's packaged.
* B <b@mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com> [24-06/29=Sa 19:15 -0700]:
>> [...] requirements [...] For a given package, if I want to know
>> about changes in unstable, then it must not generate notifications
>> against stable, experimental, source, or some other architecture.
>>
>> [...] Tracker and the Debian mailing lists [...] are dev-oriented,
>> not user-oriented. Notifications/NEWS occurs when source/uploads get
>> accepted, not when built packages are released to the FTP servers.
So the OP wants to know about Debian package updates.
> If you only care about new Debian packages, and if the
> package is one that's installed on your system [...]
All we still need to know is whether the OP cares
about packages that aren't installed, or whether some
other aspect of Greg's solution isn't sufficient.
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