Might be irreverent to this topic, but we ArchlinuxCN community have this tool `nvchecker`[1] that can check updates of version numbers for packages. It currently have support for pulling version infomation from aur4/aur, github, pypi, and many other upsteam sources. It records the current version number in a plain text format, and configures in INI format. It can be extended to send desktop notifications, emails, or trigger other commands like building the packages. It is written and maintained by lilydjwg, as a part of our `lilac`[2] package build bot for ArchlinuxCN repository [3]. But it can be used completely standalone. [1] http://lilydjwg.github.io/nvchecker/ [2] https://github.com/archlinuxcn/lilac [3] https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo BTW, I do think merging git commit messages into package comments might be helpful. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Justin Dray <justin@dray.be> wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking it could be useful to show in comments when a new version is pushed by the maintainer of a package; just a line break and maybe v1 -> v2 or the git commit message or something. It would be easier to make sense of comments on many of the packages I've seen and allow us to see if comments pertain to the current version or not without losing comment history.
Cheers, Justin
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