Re: [Nano-devel] update on web hosting

[Benno Schulenberg]

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.

Benno

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