Re: one more tag for watch-file
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>
> writes:
>
>> Attached is a patch adding a check for empty watch files.
>>
>> This tag has been added because of situations like #489050.
>>
>> The patch also removes a lax attempt of handling line continuations and
>> improves the one I added a couple of days ago.
>
> 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.
>
Will adjust it to just emit the tag when a version was set.
Cheers,
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