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Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released



On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 08:02:11AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 10:35:02AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> > >
> > > 4.9
> > >     The ``get-orig-source`` rules target has been removed.  Packages
> > >     should use ``debian/watch`` and uscan instead.
> > 
> > Especially for this, my ‘debian/rules’ files thank you.
> 
> While I really like to have this consistent approach but it seems I've
> missed how uscan can spot new versions in for instance untagged VCS or
> download files with changing content but no version number.  Is there
> some way to do this with something else than a manually craftet script?

Since devscripts 2.18.1, uscan is able to track the HEAD of a git a repository.

See the section titled "direct access to the git repository (HEAD)" in
uscan(1) for an example. It is possible to choose how to customize how the
upstream version string is created using the "pretty" option.

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