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Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

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On 6/29/24 7:48 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears
> *nowhere* else in the entire email, and it completely moves the goalposts.
>
> Are you looking for notifications that a new Debian*package* has become
> available, or are you looking for notifications that the*upstream*
> developer has released a new version, which may or may not have a
> corresponding set of Debian packages?

Good question but Will's interpretation is correct. This is the Debian 
*User* mailing list after all.

My bad. I was aware of the meaning of "upstream" in regards to package 
maintainership but wasn't thinking someone would fixate on that when I 
used that in the subject. Just throw that word away.

> My next question: is this a package that's*installed* on your system?

No. Not even the same arch or release as the installed system. I'll even 
go further and tell you I want these notifications on a Windows system 
or an iPhone. And the Debian systems are air-gapped with no Internet access.

It seems crazy that in all the history of Debian, nobody said "There's a 
package I care about and I want to get immediately when a new version is 
released." And if they had, doing an "apt-get update" every minute of 
the day would not have been any part of the desired outcome.

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How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? B <b@mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com> - 2024-06-30 04:30 +0200
  Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-30 04:50 +0200
    Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-06-30 05:20 +0200
      Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-30 05:30 +0200
        Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2024-06-30 06:40 +0200
          Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? B <b@mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com> - 2024-06-30 07:50 +0200
            Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 08:10 +0200
    Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? B <b@mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com> - 2024-06-30 07:50 +0200
      Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is  updated upstream? debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-06-30 12:40 +0200
      Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-30 15:10 +0200
  Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-06-30 11:00 +0200
    Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated  upstream? B <b@mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com> - 2024-06-30 11:40 +0200
      Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-06-30 20:30 +0200
        Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-30 20:50 +0200
          Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated B <b@mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com> - 2024-07-01 05:40 +0200
            Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-01 06:40 +0200

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