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Re: Packages without watch file



Hi Joachim,

2010/12/30 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>:

> we (DHG) have some packages without a watch file, mostly because the
> upstream website has vanished. Currently, they are flagged as “work in
> progress”: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-haskell
>
> Is there a way to ignore missing watch files? Maybe by ignoring watch
> files containing just a comment?

How about a specially formatted comment? We already have something
like that for changelogs (for ignoring some trivial non-uploaded
changes).

I am thinking in something like:
/^#\s*IGNORE(?:.*)$/
for a optional comment on the reason for ignoring

-- 
Martín Ferrari


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