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.
