Unfortunately, at least as far as I can work out, Ubuntu does not provide an RSS feed for PPA package pages. Thankfully, FreshRSS does include a web scraping method, using HTML + XPath.

These are the settings I'm using for the UbuntuGIS packages, which I use on this website for gdal:

Feed URL: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable?field.series_filter=noble

Type of feed source: HTML + XPath (Web scraping)

XPath for finding news items: .//table[@id="packages_list"]/tbody/tr

XPath for item title: descendant::td[1]

XPath for item content: descendant::td[2]

XPath for item author: descendant::td[3]/a

XPath for item date: descendant::td[3]/time[@datetime]

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20 Oct 2025

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