On Thursday, April 14, 2011 03:16:14 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:00 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > I decided to try UDD again for a new upstream version that was just
> > released.
> > 
> > I was following the documentation here:
> > 
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/Documentation/NewUpstreamV
> > ersion
> > 
> > I got to this step:
> > 
> > bzr merge-upstream --version 1.2
> > http://example.org/releases/foo-1.2.tar.gz
> > 
> > and after considering this would require me to look up the exact download
> > address on sourceforge, decided to back up and do:
> > 
> > apt-get source opendkim
> > cd opendkim-2.3.1
> > uscan
> > 
> > instead.
> > 
> > I don't know if this is a documentation shortfall or it's really that
> > much more complicated, but documenting/updating so this works easily
> > with watch files would be a big win.
> 
> the bzr-builddeb in natty can use the watch file. If you have a watch
> file it will use the watch file to download the upstream release.
> 
> The --version argument is also optional if you have a watch file; it
> will default to the latest upstream version.

That sounds good.  Could you update the wiki page then so it's documented?

Scott K

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