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Re: debian/watch version 5



Quoting Agustin Martin (2025-10-26 23:38:47)
> El jue, 14 ago 2025 a las 10:26, Xavier (<yadd@debian.org>) escribió:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Hi, Xavier,
> 
> Thanks for your work on this, this makes debian/watch files easier to
> read and handle. And templates mechanism looks really interesting.
> 
> However, there is one thing I find missing in version:5, at least in
> debian-watch man page. I do not see any reference to "custom scripts".
> Sometimes custom scripts are really useful when it is required more
> than just remove files from upstream source, The alternative is often
> a more complex get-orig-source target in debian/rules.

At the bottom of `man uscan-templates` it suggests this:

`perldoc /usr/share/perl5/Devscripts/Uscan/Templates.pod`

 - Jonas

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