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Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS



On Sat, Apr 04 2009, Noah Slater wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:35:17PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> opts=handler=svn http://domain.tld/svn/foo/...>
>> would do the right thing.
>
> What about uscan being able to use custom make targets in debian/rules?
>
> There could be a way to tell uscan to use the following:
>
>   debian/rules get-orig-source
>
>   debian/rules check-version
>
> This allows developers the flexibility to handle any situation, and
> doesn't bloat uscan by having to add all kinds of fancy handlers for
> different version control systems.
>
> As a concrete benefit, my nightly cron to check uscan for all my
> packages will be able to alert me about the ones pulled from
> repository revisions, all I would need to do is add a new
> "check-version" target.

        Why bloat debian/rules? ALl this can be done using the current
 mechanism of just adding a script into the watchfile, and does not tie
 down uscan to the debian checked out source.

        manoj
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