Hi there
On 07/04/2026 09:23, Jan Claeys wrote:
On Tue, 2026-04-07 at 07:21 +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
How do I keep tracks of changes in packages?
I build my own packports and use a cron job to keep track of changes.
Recently Debian started insisting on using JavaScript in your
browser.
That's probably protection against "AI" bots... :-(
I found those in my logs as well.
So, short of using a web driver - (headless) webbrowser combination,
how do I keep track of changes?
You don't say how & where you were looking now?
packages.debian.org
A shell script looks for changes in the package page and then mails me
those changes.
One way is to look at updates based on the metadata in the
repositories, which should work without JavaScript.
Downloading and processing Packages.gz does work.
I just wrote a shell script that runs from cron.
This is actually simpeler and works better.
Regards,
Rob
