Re: [Nano-devel] update on web hosting

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, at 18:04, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2016 17:03, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > 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 ?

No -- they watch the content of a directory, in this case: latest/
When they see 2.5.0 and 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 and 2.5.3 disappear
and 2.6.0 appear, they know something's new.  When next they
see 2.6.1 appear next to 2.6.0...  They watch the content of the
dir, not the URL itself.

Benno

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