Re: Improvements to ʽdebian/watchʼ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Daniel Leidert wrote:
I would like to propose a complete rethinking of the watch files.
We have several packages, which must be prepared from a VCS or
must be repckaged. ATM several people changed to use something like
$url $pattern debian /bin/sh get-orig-source-script
One can't use
$url $pattern debian /usr/bin/make debian/rules get-orig-source
because make will error out because of the unknown switch
--upstream-version.
I used to work around this in my packages by providing a
debian/get-orig-source
script which is just called in the get-orig-source target of
debian/rules. This might be a way to circumvent this specific
problem (nothing against rethinking in general for sure).
The next propblem is, that such a script doesn't have the same purpose
as uupdate has, as the first is used to create a new tarball and the
second to apply an existing diff to the new tarball.
Exactly - so my suggested workaround just solves the problem of
the "old way of thinking".
...
Opinions?
Interesting.
One additional thought: We store packaging Vcs and upstream homepage
in debian/control. What about storing upstream Vcs there as well and
teach uscan to look there as well. Just a rough thought.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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