Manoj Srivastava wrote: > a) Run a upstream version check from cron, which mails me if there are > new upstream versions of something I have.
What happens if your watch file breaks? Do you check upstream announcements manually, too? > b) If there is a new upstream version, cd checked out dir > 1. No munging required: use uscan --rename --verbose to get the > latest source. > 2. Munging needed. Run get-orig-source to get the latest upstream > source via uscan; and munge it as needed to create the > orig.tar.gz file > c) Proceed as per: > > http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/blog/2009/02/25/A_day_in_the_life_of_a_Debian_hacker/ > > Is this so very different from what people do? Depends on the package, for the really easy ones I works as described above probably (didn't read the webpage, though), but as soon as 'munging' or get-orig-source is needed, I prefer to pull from upstream's repository directly. Makes live much more easy. For those cases where a git pull is not enough, I've setup cronjobs which pull from upstream and push into the according branches in my git, usually named upstream-svn/upstream-cvs or similar. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
