Hi Steffen,
Fedora's bots listen to a RabbitMQ message bus for news of software
releases from Anitya at https://release-monitoring.org.
It seems distribution people are keen to create JSON that is
understood by repology.org.
https://repology.org/project/nmh/information
Thanks, that's an interesting site. In particular, one can visit
https://repology.org/project/nmh/badges and see
https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/nmh.svg which shows
Trisquel 9.0 and Ubuntu 18.04 allegedly have 1.7.1RC3.
BTW, Ken and David, shall we adopt Semantic Versioning? All the crazy
cool kids are doing it. https://semver.org
As well as helping decide when the major, minor, or patch version gets
updated for a release, it also details how pre-release candidates are
identified, e.g. 1.7.1RC3 doesn't comply.
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Cheers, Ralph.
