Mastodawn

#NixOS / #nixpkgs questions: I'm running against nixos-unstable. Home Manager has a "news" feature that tells me when things change in ways I might care about. Does anyone have a cunning way to get notified about changes to the Nixpkgs and NixOS release notes?

I can write my own monitoring script, but if there's a way of doing this that doesn't require reinventing this particular wheel, that'd be preferable!

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The Incredible Laser Mar 8

@me_and Isn't this exactly what mkRemovedOptionModule and mkAliasOptionModule are for?

There's nothing really for new stuff except monitoring nixpkgs pull requests and filter by the has: module tag

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Adam Dinwoodie

@IncredibleLaser the `mk*OptionModule` definitely help catch some types of breaking change, but that's only a small subset of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md. Sounds like I might need to write my own module to monitor for changes to those files...