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[Profpatsch]

On 16-11-28 05:04pm, phreedom at yandex.ru wrote:
> On Monday, November 28, 2016 13:32:16 Tomasz Czyż wrote:
> > 2016-11-28 13:18 GMT+00:00 Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de>:
> > debian has such a strategy:
> > - https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch
> 
> That happens to not work all that well:
> https://github.com/Phreedom/nixpkgs-monitor/blob/master/debian-watchfiles/watchfiles.md
> 
> It turns out that debian watchfiles were much less reliable at getting updates 
> from SourceForge, than a generic SourceForge updater. This is because naming 
> schemes change, devs forget to update the updater script and lots of other 
> tiny but important reasons.

Since we have a unified packageset written in a turing-complete language
we can do a lot better. e.g. lib.updaters.updateSourceForge

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