Hi,
I wrote:
I wonder if Fedora or Debian offer something similar.
Fedora's bots listen to a RabbitMQ message bus for news of software
releases from Anitya at https://release-monitoring.org.
‘Anitya is a release monitoring project.
‘Its goal is to regularly check if a project has made a new
release. When Anitya discovers a new release for a project, it
publishes a RabbitMQ message via fedora messaging. This makes it
easy to integrate with Anitya and perform actions when a new release
is created for a project. For example, the Fedora project runs a
service called the-new-hotness which files a Bugzilla bug against
a package when the upstream project makes a new release.
‘Anitya provides a user-friendly interface [for us plebs] to add,
edit, or browse projects.’
― https://release-monitoring.org/static/docs/index.html
nmh isn't in its list, though it offers various back-ends for scraping
URLs with a regexp fallback option. David obviously knows when the
Fedora package needs updating, but perhaps other services listen to
Anitya too.
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Cheers, Ralph.