Bug#831521: uscan: Implement new 'nomktar' option on watch file

2016-07-18 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Osamu, >By the way, can you tall me exact case you are thinking so we know we >are attacking the real problem (not just theoretical cases). You can see an use case here [1] with another use case in one of my replies to the thread, because I can't use uscan to download virtualbox-guest-additi

Bug#831521: uscan: Implement new 'nomktar' option on watch file

2016-07-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 05:51:21PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > Package: devscripts > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > Rationale: > > Some Debian maintainers have to deal with upstream projects that do not > offer tarballs for

Bug#831521: uscan: Implement new 'nomktar' option on watch file

2016-07-16 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
Package: devscripts Tags: patch Hi, Rationale: Some Debian maintainers have to deal with upstream projects that do not offer tarballs for releases. The modus operandi for working around this "issue" is to provide your own replaceme