Hi Jeremy,
I help maintain both the-new-hotness and Anitya. the-new-hotness
attempts to update projects in Anitya when changes occur in pkgdb
(among other things). I assume when you use "X" you don't literally
mean "X" and when you say "http://url/project/X" you don't
literally
mean that URL?
No, it was meant as a variable.
I don't think Anitya can help you monitor upstream because it
doesn't
download package sources, just scrapes web pages. We could potentially
add a backend that does that, though.
I don't know if there are many (or any) other upstream projects that
treat their releases the same way - as far as versioning is concerned.
Adding such a backend could be too much trouble for insignificant
gains, but ultimately, that is up to you. At first I used to check the
version inside the font itself and the one mentioned on the web page,
but there have been several silent updates with no version bumps, so I
have found checking the hashes to be the most reliable method.
You don't need to take any action, but I'd be grateful if you
could
give me a list of package names so I can poke around their upstreams to
see how difficult adding a backend would be and also to see what
Anitya/the-new-hotness are currently trying to do.
These are the ones for which I received the messages (the URL in their
spec files did change since the last version, for a while they had
their own web pages):
gdouros-aegean-fonts
gdouros-alexander-fonts
gdouros-anaktoria-fonts
gdouros-aroania-fonts
gdouros-asea-fonts
gdouros-avdira-fonts
(the last 5 are part of the same upstream "Textfonts" package)
and here is a list of all the gdouros-*-fonts:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/?motif=gdouros*
(same upstream, same troubles)
Tanks for looking into that!