Re: debian/watch version 5

[Yadd <yadd@debian.org>]

On 8/15/25 23:43, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 01:45:16PM +0200 schrieb Yadd:
> > On 8/14/25 13:40, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote:
> > > Le 2025-08-14 10:25, Xavier a écrit :
> > > > What do you think ?
>
> Great work!  I love it!
>
> > > Thank you for this work! It makes watch files much more readable.
> > >
> > > Later a further improvement could be to generate a default configuration
> > > from d/upstream/metadata which would probably allow many packages to not
> > > need a d/watch anymore.
> >
> > Good idea, we can have the following behavior:
> > - if no debian/watch, look at debian/upstream/metadata
> > - if a template matches, let's use it
>
> Even better.
>   
> > I'll build an MR for that
>
> :-)
>
> Can we please have a templates for
>
>
> opts=dversionmangle=s/.*/0.No-Site/ \
> https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/ FakeWatchNoUpstreamSiteForThisPackage-(\d\S+)\.gz
>
> opts=dversionmangle=s/.*/0.No-Release/ \
> https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/ FakeWatchNoUpstreamReleaseForThisPackage-(\d\S+)\.gz
>
> opts=dversionmangle=s/.*/0.No-Track/ \
> https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/ FakeWatchNoUpstreamTrackingForThisPackage-(\d\S+)\.gz
>
>
> This would be a dream.
>
> Kind regards
>       Andreas.

Hi Andreas,

done: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/544

BTW, the main goal of templates is to workaround this JS problem. For 
example, the "Metacpan" and "Github" templates use systems to workaround 
this problems:
- Metacpan uses MetaCPAN::CLient
- Github uses API isntead of Github webpages

Best regards,
Xavier