On 12-Mar-2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > To recap: > 1) apt-get source is enough to get the latest Debian source from the > archive (and whet for older sources) I presume you mean ‘wget’ here. (Apart from ‘apt-get source’, is there another tool that is *solely* focussed on getting the Debian source for a package by name?) > 2) In the absence of munging, uscan, with a watch and watch-current > files, is adequate to get either the latest or a specific version > from upstream It's more limited than “in the absence of munging”. None of my packages currently need munging, but there are some that upstream doesn't *have* a tarball release for the code I want to package. Those are the cases that led me to ‘get-orig-source’ in the first place, since obviously ‘uscan’ can't handle those. I would re-state this instead as: In the presence of upstream tarball releases, which don't need munging, at the versions which need to be packaged, ‘uscan’ is adequate for getting the original source archive. > 3) It is reasonable to get the latest, or a specific version, from > upstream, and munge it. Yes. -- \ “With Lisp or Forth, a master programmer has unlimited power | `\ and expressiveness. With Python, even a regular guy can reach | _o__) for the stars.” —Raymond Hettinger | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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