Re: Watch files for haskell packages
Hi Joachim,
Thanks a lot for your message.
I am thinking to improve my watch files. I never used d/watch to
download new versions... I used to check these versions only. This is
the cause of the my bad watches. I am using it to download since
december.
The sepwatch is a simple mechanism to suggest d/watches and help to
show new upstream versions when the d/watch is broken. The impact is
minimum, because the sepwatch file is removed from SVN when a new
package with a working d/watch is uploaded.
The list of broken d/watches can be viewed at
http://qa.debian.org/watch/uscan-errors.txt. We work over this list.
After a upload to sepwatch, the package name is removed from the list.
And after the upload the final package, the sepwatch will be
automatically removed from the SVN. The new d/watch should just work.
But you can take advantage of my wrong sepwatches to know about new
upstream versions.
Sorry for inconvenients and thanks for your attention.
Cheers,
Eriberto
2014-01-28 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>:
> Hi Eriberto,
>
> I noticed on
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/sepwatch?view=revision&revision=158
> that you submitted watch files for Haskell package. Thanks for working
> on QA!
>
> It is true that a lot of existing packages have their watch file broken,
> but know that and we refrained from uploading the packages just because
> of that - the next GHC release will require sourceful uploads anyways.
>
> Your watch file is suboptimal, as it does not allow downloading old
> versions, I believe. Here is the watch file that we do want to use:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/darcs/pkg-haskell/tools/template-debian/watch
>
> I am not sure about the impact of watch files on sepwatch, but maybe you
> want to upload such improved watch files there.
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
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