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Re: debian/watch version 5



Hello,

On Thu 14 Aug 2025 at 10:25am +02, Xavier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> uscan with new debian/watch format version 5 is ready (available in
> experimental).
> Of course this version of uscan is still able to read current formats. The main
> changes in version 5 are:
> - rfc822 style (like other debian files)
> - "templates" that permit to calculate automatically sources. Example:
>
>   Version: 5
>
>   Template: Github
>   Author: guimard
>   Project: llng-docker
>
> Note that there are also a uscan command and a salsa command to basically
> update debian/watch.
>
> Contrib are welcome to add templates (currently we have Github and Metacpan).
>
> I propose to release it to unstable, then backports. And then we will be able to
> push it into debci machines (else tracker will report errors for all version-5 files).
>
> What do you think ?

It looks like there is a slight possible entanglement between uscan v5
and the transition to move git-deborig from bin:devscripts to
bin:git-debpush, which I've been working on.

We're just finalising the packaging changes in src:dgit[1] and then I
was planning to upload both packages to unstable.
I didn't realise this would mean I would be releasing uscan v5 :)

It's sid, though, we have it for the sake of making transitions.
So is it okay with you if I upload both packages as I planned?

Thanks.

[1]  https://salsa.debian.org/dgit-team/dgit/-/merge_requests/279

-- 
Sean Whitton

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