Re: automatically maintaining/tracking repackaged upstream tarballs

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 2014-04-23 8:27, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> - uscan is only for existing packages

No, it's not.

> - should it be generalized to also
> read directly from watch files that are not in a source package?

$ cat tempwatch
version=3
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/anjal/([\d\.]+)/anjal-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz

$ uscan --watchfile tempwatch --package anjal --upstream-version 0 
--download
anjal: Newer version (0.3.2) available on remote site:
  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/anjal/0.3/anjal-0.3.2.tar.gz
  (local version is 0)
anjal: Successfully downloaded updated package anjal-0.3.2.tar.gz
    and symlinked anjal_0.3.2.orig.tar.gz to it

Regards,

Adam