> This is a good starting point. Using filenamemangle anddownloadurlmangle you
> can use the above for a working
> watch file. Iattached it. As long as upstreams stays with this scheme
> (besides it isa dead project), this should
> work.
Thank you for the watch file, Daniel. My primary machine i
Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 16:31 -0700 schrieb Brandon:
> Creating a separate script wouldn't really make much sense in my case.
> I was only fixing the watch file as a formality. Upstream is dead, so I
> wouldn't be using it, but it would satisfy projects like dehs, and my
> QA page warns me abo
* Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080902 22:31]:
> Also, xevil is a dead project. The latest release was years ago, and
> Satan doesn't respond to email. Would you guys recommend not having a
> watch file?
I think especially with dead upstream a watch file is usefull. If
upstream is active and knows
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, xevil is a dead project. The latest release was years ago, and
> Satan doesn't respond to email. Would you guys recommend not having a
> watch file? Even if so, I would really like to know how I would solve
> this problem,
Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have one more question about watch files. If I were to delete the
> watch file (maybe upstream website will be taken down in the future?),
> is there anything special I should do to override the missing
> watch file warnings? Is there a signal to sites like
Creating a separate script wouldn't really make much sense in my case.
I was only fixing the watch file as a formality. Upstream is dead, so I
wouldn't be using it, but it would satisfy projects like dehs, and my
QA page warns me about my broken watch file.
I think I will just use the watch file t
You are correct: my solution obviously doesn't work, since I didn't
read carefully enough.
> This would be an easy problem to solve with a script. It would just be
> a few lines, and not much hassle.
Russ Allbery's blog suggests a get-orig-source debian/rules target
that he uses for packaging his
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:25:04 -0700
"Daniel Moerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think your approach to the debian/watch file is sort of off, which
> explains why it isn't working. You want to point it to a webpage
> where it can get hrefs that match the given regular expression, so you
> want t
I think your approach to the debian/watch file is sort of off, which
explains why it isn't working. You want to point it to a webpage
where it can get hrefs that match the given regular expression, so you
want the website to actually be specified as download_stable.shtml.
Something like this basic
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008, Brandon wrote:
> The current upstream is:
> http://www.xevil.com/download/stable/xevilsrc2.02r2.zip
> Unfortunatley, the following watch line won't work:
> http://www.xevil.com/download/stable/xevilsrc(*.).zip
> because directory listings are (403) forbidden.
>
> Also, xevil i
I am attempting to write a watch file for my debian package, xevil.
Here is how I would direct a human to find the latest version:
1) Go to: http://www.xevil.com/xevil/dev/download.html
2) Click on the "Stable version" link
3) Click on the "Xevil" link
Here is what I have of my watch file so far:
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