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.
