Re: automatically maintaining/tracking repackaged upstream tarballs

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>]

On 23/04/14 10:07, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On 2014-04-23 8:27, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> - uscan is only for existing packages
>
> No, it's not.

>From the man page:


SYNOPSIS
       uscan [options] [path-to-debian-source-packages ...]



could be more verbose:

uscan [options] [path-to-debian-source-packages ...]

uscan [options] --watchfile <something>


>
>> - 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
>
>