Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released
Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> wrote:
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>> On Sat, Apr 07 2018, Ole Streicher wrote:
[...]
>>> Sure, but why do we give up a common rule? I think the cases where
>>> d/watch does not work are not so rare (at least I have quite a number
>>> of them), and keeping them unified is not the worst thing we can do.
>> See discussion in #515856.
> Maybe I didn't read it too carefully, but I didn't find the argument why
> get-orig-source is not kept for the cases where uscan doesn't do the
> job.
> And when I extrapolate from my packages, this is not an exceptionally
> rare case.
Imho Sean's last mail sums it up pretty well
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515856#94
cu Andreas
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