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

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B <b@mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'd expect that normally when somebody is so keen about a particular
package, they'd be more interested to know when a new upstream version
of the package appeared, rather than it appearing in a debian update.
So the answer would depend on a lot of factors and wouldn't have a
general answer.

But in general, if there isn't an event-driven mechanism available(*)
then a polling solution is generally the next step.

* e.g. accepting notifications of all updates and filtering for the
  interesting one.

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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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