Hello, On Wed, 08 Jul 2026, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > The Debian archive seemingly has many packages that are hopelessly > outdated by several upstream releases. While tracker.d.o/package does > mention if a new upstream version has appeared, it doesn't e-mail the > maintainer. IMHO, tracker should at least e-mail the maintainer or, > preferably, all subscribers of a particular package's tracker.
Ideally, bugs mentionning the new upstream releases are filed, that would solve this issue. Also at this point the tracker is not generating emails, it tends to relay where appropriate mails generated by the respective services whose information are collated together. But I agree that this has been a long time shortcoming of our setup. Still some maintainers objected to this based on the fact, that they follow the respective upstream project and are aware of the release, and notifications/bugs are noise. So as usual, it would ideally require some opt-out mechanism. IOW, help wanted as it's not a quick fix. Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS
