Hello! I’m waiting for Helix to be updated on nixos-unstable. Is there a way I can get notified when it updates? GitHub, email, anything.
There’s a matrix bot to track PRs: @nixpkgs-bot:maralorn.de
If you’re not waiting for a PR to make it through the pipeline you’re probably out of luck though; you have to wait for a human to decide to do the work to make such a PR (or write the automation to make PRs for them), and humans are kind of hard to attach to a notification bot.
You could write something that polls github for new PRs with the right title, though, that’s supposed to follow a standard, so likely not that hard. I’m just not aware of an existing tool for nixpkgs specifically.
Edit: Realized I had the wrong bot - this one isn’t advertised very well, easy to mistake it for the one derived from it that does something else.
A PR has already been merged: helix: 24.07 -> 25.01 by GaetanLepage · Pull Request #370713 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
But searching on Nixpkgs on unstable still shows the previous version.
Yep, then that bot is for you. It’ll tell you when it all moves through hydra and hits unstable proper.
This usually doesn’t take that long though, few hours to a day is typical afaik.
What you are looking for is Nixpkgs PR progress tracker
Just give it the PR number and you will see the status of that PR!
For helix you can follow this link: Nixpkgs PR #370713 ("helix: 24.07 -> 25.01") progress
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Doesn’t give notifications though, the matrix bot does 
Fair enough! I just wanted to clarify why searching on NixOS Search still shows 24.07 instead of 25.01 and how to track the progress easily 
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