Re: watch file syntax
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:50:33AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ian Duggan wrote:
> >
> > When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes
> > supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but
> > the man page for uscan says another. Which is preferred/correct?
>
> Install the uscan from unstable, and do not escape backslashes. The new
> devscripts features a rewritten uscan, that also has a new, more
> powerful and easier to use watch file format. And it doesn't have the
> escaping problems the old uscan did.
And go for version 2.6.91 (which has just been uploaded) if you have
any FTP sites; version 2.6.90 was broken for them. See uscan(1) in
the new package for a description of the new watch file format.
The new devscripts also features a funky new config file.
It was probably my longest ever changelog ;-)
Julian
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