On 17-Apr-08, at 1:38 AM, Andreas Tille wrote (in response to
Sebastian):
I know there is something like a watch file for Debian.
The watch file informs the Debian maintainer about new upstream
versions.
I have to admit that I failed to get a notice about new upstream
versions
for packages I would like to watch. I know that I could run uscan
on my
machine in a cron job, but I wanted to use the service that is
provided
by the Debian-QA team to send an e-mail to the maintainer. IMHO we
should
implement this for all Debian Med group maintained packages - but I
have no
idea how to do this. Any clue?
GNUmed owns and hopes to try to regularly use its list
gnumed-updates
when there are new releases. Would there be an email address that we
could subscribe to that list, on behalf of Debian-QA team, that would
allow them to automatically get such releases?
It is possible that the list gnumed-updates might be attractive to
use for updates that are not affecting Debian (for example I had been
thinking the list useful to announce packages ready for X Linux
distribution or Y operating system). Maybe that makes a difference,
unless Debian-QA team would filter on the received email for "debian"
or one of the names releases of debian, otherwise we might have to
make a note somewhere to manually email Debian-QA (or Debian-Med)
which is the least-preferred option.
