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Re: one more tag for watch-file



On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:09 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> What's the correct way for a non-native Debian package to indicate that
> there's no useful upstream and watch file processing should not be done
> for that package?
> 
> I'd been assuming that it was adding a watch file that contained only
> comments.  I'd prefer there be some supported way that doesn't require
> Lintian overrides, although I suppose it's not a horrible use of
> overrides.

Agreed, particularly when we're explicitly suggesting creating such a
watch file when issuing debian-watch-file-is-missing.

Adam


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