Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Raphael Geissert wrote: >> >> Once I file the bug reports I will be giving about two weeks before I >> remove the hack from DEHS and later from the DDPO. The lintian check has >> been around for many months now and it has given maintainers enough time >> to prepare an upload to fix some bugs on their packages so I don't see >> the need to wait any longer than that. > > two weeks are not debian period ;-)
The only annoyance that could be caused is that the Debian version would be considered as newer than upsteam's. And like I said: this is a hack, if you run uscan on the source package's tree uscan will say that it couldn't find Debian's version. And like I said, there's a lintian check that has been in place for many months now. > >> Version one watch files (actually versionless watch files) have been >> considered obsolete for more than two releases now. Since a lot of >> special >> casing code is needed to handle those I would therefore like to file bug >> reports against packages shipping that kind of watch files so that the >> maintainers have a chance to make an upload before the code is removed >> from uscan. >> >> A lintian check[2] has also been in place for many months now, and >> according to it there are 60 packages in unstable/main with versionless >> watch files. > > Are these bugs? Versionless watch files are rigid, obsolete, and tend to break. > I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. > Thus, theoretically, you should change the tools and then you could fill > the bugs (debian/watch not working). James Vega already pointed you to uscan(1) :). > > BTW, on first proposed MBF you write about DEHS and DDPO, and on the > second > only about uscan. I would like that the tools will behave in a similar > manner (maybe with extra warnings on uscan). > DEHS uses uscan, and by removing the hack I mention on the first MBF proposal DEHS would finally report exactly the same results as uscan. DDPO also has the hack because DEHS only uses the hack to determine whether a package is up to date or not, but the DDPO also indicates if Debian's version is greater than upstream's, so it needs the hack as well. About warnings: -- uscan.pl warning: /tmp/libroxen-imho_watch1fpHQf is an obsolete version 1 watchfile; please upgrade to a higher version (see uscan(1) for details). -- Cheers, Raphael Geissert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org