Re: [Nano-devel] update on web hosting

[Mike Frysinger]

On 20 Jun 2016 17:03, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, at 16:52, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 20 Jun 2016 16:19, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > It's useful for distros that watch a URL to see if something
> > > new has arrived.
> > 
> > but it doesn't actually serve that purpose.  the symlink is pointing
> > to the latest branch, not the latest release.
> 
> What Debian does is: watch the contents of a directory.
> If one day it changes, a little man on the maintainer's desk
> starts waving a flag.

so they'll get a notice on 2.5.x->2.6.x, but at the end of the day,
they still need to monitor some announce list for 2.6.x->2.6.y ?
still doesn't seem like it's all that useful to me.
-mike

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