Re: Watch file warning from mentors website
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 18:56, Bart Martens wrote: The redirector githubredir is obsolete, because github allows uscan now. It's possible that githubredir is still documented in some versions of man uscan. You can choose to add a comments-only watch file or to leave out the watch file and ignore the lintian message. Excellent. I'll change the githubredir to github and leave the other comments. Thanks for the quick and comprehensive response. - -- Regards, Scott Leggett. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRLGuRAAoJEHlzKPr+55fVOWsP/jnxmfQsuSPn9CHpCq/iiaii r9+Sm8veQt7IymjSPaiRVtlHeKGEk0outx6BDCJoErfMWD0XjaIWdT9UwhsOwSQZ AD/adB5lqE14CP19WS/OOXjxPU0dg99b+RF1vnV2zG99BTbuNGKYmkygctFoP0iP lNdOxqNrticOMljcmrhBU2yBy7vrcvv6pM2mn7Z3gOQ+b4yxhsZVhe7ubgv18oPw yDoVfcAyPFYP/PX/aiPLMoQLPwg4Zsv1mb0ExGlTBEtbXBdEn6Z8RspltLDA7Xhf X8pHvG3+hvgDVdpC70J7uPz0ZZ15L70e0//ijwh6mJ5d7oar5m1qMfNlgSemiWIA GyC6A7pEW8xr8sbPu5ggkbyeNdeLecnd9wyCiVUNuBC6tQ2kRJCG+Sw5EyAIUSuz 8KNjXryUhm98yVHe85i4mexE0VsoEaA1fSWOt7Kv//vHs4SgU8adEqPOr+SDSC06 9QGRP8MrydEZqF2uuMR7Ob6Bfxx+Ajkf9ZVxKw87bRcyz/vHpdK3gOn8/naxG8Hg XLUR8U60oyDjmh0J5ntpYBfgkDB7QAgXd5t0rJxQEmYSdilnWnZKY1orlohTx2bC Hi8AP+zdLrrtKDIBSouhwRQhqi0RIbfrpPnSxZYiIeVxnt0UKd8aL5lkm9sUVPZP gXciaXvCjgAmjh2P7dw2 =eJPK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/512c6b92@sl.id.au
Watch file warning from mentors website
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've got an issue with watch file usage in some software I'm trying to package ( https://mentors.debian.net/package/compton ). Upstream does not release tarballs, instead preferring packagers to build straight from git. I've followed the advice of the lintian report for debian-watch-file-is-missing, and created a watch file with a few comments explaining the situation. It looks like this: #version=3 #http://githubredir.debian.net/github/chjj/compton (.*).tar.gz # Upstream currently does not release tarballs or even tag releases, instead # preferring packagers to work straight from git. # When this situation improves, the watch lines above should work and this # comment block can be removed. See https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/71 This passes lintian fine locally, but when uploaded the mentors website complains that A watch file is present but doesn't work (see the link to my package above). Is there something I can fix in the watch file, or is the mentors website complaining unnecessarily? It seems strange that the website would complain while lintian does not. Thanks for any advice. - -- Regards, Scott Leggett. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRLF+NAAoJEHlzKPr+55fVQ7wP/3ITPLZkqFqIYAqem8Zn4RNp 7e7NKc2dK88BOhT0Nc0wPO/BfRzGvJD8hgOY1LfgpO7APHLKps5Wj/vhZgAAYCC8 TMeOt7zLVpcMh5/R3Q2JNP3RPbis16qJ+5bdQqySzb5e7AaZI+w38RO3YwM4n3TA 26cWCHG9mb2cyWhCNjgapqRFtZqi/ihYykrDCl0fVFT3xGtvGHJ1rzIIXmqQpAOs /QlX89awXQfgwAq14AgoONKKeeoSskxrvNpDYg3xLpuV+MgxypEAl/BcRXDXSglq rpBfwCm2DfxSp0imqcCCgUtX35GV0PtCVHKaxcqwYxLMF9hSViMbBmyLjH6eN/Zd 22edGbDdosfj/GQHrIHvJdR5EzoiC+bFmXsnzTj4n80iuNvkb6gXWlZOlCt4/o4k ihvHYfJrHAuhfPMntuYJ0FY4WJBBmIaoqzPTM+sx1fslD/n3EQ/Ph80rEAQuKHQY Cah60wJhS7gw+8slkkjbreGetr+9hvbaG4S3fxQRAFqOFLlhl7tKnvgBz1mcFr08 2t/rVxEnnHGBrqgPSicApiUBaw6e0wBb0GVfc1VjFg4Nldm/OVXq5HfevMrWZl/M 9TlsA2nk/11xdf9/fO1DqGQnpQ2KSjdKqUx/mBq/ZrnOVnabNtbKutUENyzk0yZV cmSSqiwDEqENgiHx38r2 =Xvnb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/512c5f8d.7060...@sl.id.au
Re: Watch file warning from mentors website
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:09:01PM +1100, Scott Leggett wrote: Hi, I've got an issue with watch file usage in some software I'm trying to package ( https://mentors.debian.net/package/compton ). Upstream does not release tarballs, instead preferring packagers to build straight from git. I've followed the advice of the lintian report for debian-watch-file-is-missing, and created a watch file with a few comments explaining the situation. It looks like this: #version=3 #http://githubredir.debian.net/github/chjj/compton (.*).tar.gz # Upstream currently does not release tarballs or even tag releases, instead # preferring packagers to work straight from git. # When this situation improves, the watch lines above should work and this # comment block can be removed. See https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/71 The redirector githubredir is obsolete, because github allows uscan now. It's possible that githubredir is still documented in some versions of man uscan. You can choose to add a comments-only watch file or to leave out the watch file and ignore the lintian message. This passes lintian fine locally, but when uploaded the mentors website complains that A watch file is present but doesn't work (see the link to my package above). You can ignore that. I guess mentors doensn't check for comments-only watch files. Is there something I can fix in the watch file, At first site upstream doesn't support uscan, so no. or is the mentors website complaining unnecessarily? In my opinion, yes. It seems strange that the website would complain while lintian does not. I guess mentors doesn't use lintian to check the watch file, hence the different behavior. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130226075614.ga29...@master.debian.org