On 30/05/2013 07:01, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Is it the package maintainer's job to watch for upstream releases? > > How does this Debian package upstream watching works *practically*? > >>From http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/ I have the impression that I > have to come up with a scheme to call the uscan program on regular basis, > whereas from http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS I have the impression that DEHS > is doing that. The problem is that it publish to the summary mlist > (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html). > I.e., to get a notification of a single upstream package update > notifications, the S/N ratio would be extremely low. > > So, what's the *practically* way to get a notification of a single > upstream package update?
I symlink the checked out git repositories of all my maintained packages into a specific directory (~/src/debian/uscan-pkgs), and then have a cron job that does "cd $HOME/src/debian/uscan-pkgs && uscan --report" nightly. If there are no updated packages (and hence no output) I don't get a notification. Otherwise, the output of the uscan command gets sent to my email by cron. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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