Is it worth investing much effort into debugging watch file issues? In my experience, watchfiles are seldom useful. There was the whole problem with getting at HTTPS URLs; the sourceforge workarounds (that broke); etc. One of the packages I maintain (deutex) does not have the latest upstream version linked to from a website (it's referenced in a mailing list post somewhere). I've read several other examples of situations (unpredictable version number schemes etc.) where it falls short.
Also, if a package is being looked after by an active maintenance team, you'd hope that they would be aware that a new upstream version was available: in many cases you'd hope they were aware one was *due*, often with pre-releases in experimental to catch issues for the larger suites. If a package is not being looked after by an active maintenance team, there's a bug in the package maintenance (or the package should be on it's way out); which won't be solved by tweaking the watch file. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
