Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

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Subject: Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)
From: Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:06:03 -0600
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Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
> 
> 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.
> 

And do what with it? how will it know what it should look for? that's why
all that information is in and belongs to the watch files.

Cheers,
Raphael Geissert

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