[No CC please] Daniel Leidert wrote: [...] > > I would like to propose a complete rethinking of the watch files. > We have several packages, which must be prepared from a VCS or > must be repckaged. ATM several people changed to use something like > > $url $pattern debian /bin/sh get-orig-source-script > > One can't use > > $url $pattern debian /usr/bin/make debian/rules get-orig-source > > because make will error out because of the unknown switch > --upstream-version. >
Sure, that's something that could be modified in version 4 watch files. I'm thinking about a format string a-la printf. > The next propblem is, that such a script doesn't have the same purpose > as uupdate has, as the first is used to create a new tarball and the > second to apply an existing diff to the new tarball. > > So I was thinking about, how this could be solved. One idea, that came > to my mind is: Why not source debian/watch by uscan? One could then > write a watch file like this: > I'm against sourcing anything, this is far beyond the pourpose of the watch files and can be done by a specified helper script. Cheers, Raphael Geissert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
