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



On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:00:05AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04 2009, Noah Slater wrote:
> > 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.

Because this bloats the uscan implementation.

GNU Make already lets us add these rules, and the only real difference,
presuming that the rules would be of the same length no matter where you put
them, is the file they are located in.

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater


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