Nixpkgs-update-notifier: subscribe to nixpkgs-update build errors

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Looks like subs now can have duplicates

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Also, it should be alphabetically sorted?

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Seems to work now (with some strange exceptions; e.g. why ffmpeg and ffmpeg_4 but not ffmpeg_6?). Will it pick up new packages and remove dropped ones?

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See Nixpkgs-update-notifier: subscribe to nixpkgs-update build errors - #13 by asymmetric.

TL;DR:

  1. because ffmpeg_6 was never built by nixpkgs-update
  2. Nope. Also, my assumption is that https://nixpkgs-update-logs.nix-community.org/ doesn’t remove packages. Do you know whether that’s not the case?
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By dropped I meant packages I stop maintaining; I guess I’d just have to unfollow and follow again periodically to sync the list?

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Both issues should be fixed now, thanks for the reports!

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If the set of maintained packages has strictly grown, you don’t have to unfollow — just doing another follow will subscribe to the newly maintained packages. But (as you probably guessed) it won’t remove newly unmaintained ones. So yeah, in the general case, unfollow -> follow is the most accurate.

I can look into syncing every once in a while in the background, but I’m slightly concerned about increasing noise from the bot – assuming it would message you when it updates your subscriptions, rather than only when it detects an error in a log. So I guess if I implemented this, it would happen silently.