On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 08:34:25PM -0700, B wrote:
>
> Darn and I liked your wiki. I didn't know you were a toxic.
Please stop that.
He was one trying to offer help. Part of that help was pointing
out that your requirements, as you stated them, are incomplete
and possibly contradictory.
Many of
Darn and I liked your wiki. I didn't know you were a toxic.
On 6/30/24 11:43 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Can I ask why?
You can. I have a funny feeling we won't get an answer.
The fact that B is interested in unstable*primarily* (it's the first
thing mentioned) tells us an enormous amount.
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 13:22:15 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 29 Jun 2024 at 22:46:00 (-0700), B 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."
No, the crazy part
On Sun 30 Jun 2024 at 02:31:28 (-0700), B wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately I already researched that
> and there are problems.
On Sat 29 Jun 2024 at 22:46:00 (-0700), B wrote:
> It seems crazy that in all the history of Debian, nobody said "There's
> a package I care about and
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 22:46:00 -0700, B wrote:
> On 6/29/24 7:48 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > 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
B 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
On 6/30/24 1:55 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
I will readily admit that it doesn't immediately meet all of your
criteria, but one possible venue especially if you are only interested
in a few specific packages might be to point e.g. rss2email at the
package events RSS feed available through trac
On 29 Jun 2024 19:15 -0700, from b...@mydomainnameisbiggerthanyours.com (B):
> My objective is to get an email notification when an update is available for
> a specific Debian package.
>
> It sounds simple. Something like this should already exist, right? The
> requirements are trivial. Yet after
On 30/6/24 15:45, B wrote:
On 6/29/24 9:30 PM, John Crawley wrote:
rmadison will fetch data about package versions available in the
Debian repositories.
Its output might be usefully parsed by a script.
Thank you! I totally forgot about madison.
https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
What
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 noti
On 6/29/24 9:30 PM, John Crawley wrote:
rmadison will fetch data about package versions available in the
Debian repositories.
Its output might be usefully parsed by a script.
Thank you! I totally forgot about madison.
https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
On 30/06/2024 12:19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:12:36 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote:
All we still need to know is whether the OP cares
about packages that aren't installed, or whether some
other aspect of Greg's solution isn't sufficient.
If there's interest in new versions
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:12:36 -0700, Will Mengarini wrote:
> All we still need to know is whether the OP cares
> about packages that aren't installed, or whether some
> other aspect of Greg's solution isn't sufficient.
If there's interest in new versions of uninstalled packages, then we
have an
* Greg Wooledge [24-06/29=Sa 22:48 -0400]:
> Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears
> *nowhere* else in the entire email, and it completely moves the goalposts.
"Upstream" was a misleading misnomer intended to refer to anything
... well, "upstream" of the OP's system
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 19:15:55 -0700, B wrote:
> My objective is to get an email notification when an update is available for
> a specific Debian package.
I already have questions.
Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears
*nowhere* else in the entire email, and it co
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