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Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian



On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 03:58 -0600, Warren Turkal wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 03:21, Bart Martens wrote:
> > However, some packages have no working debian/watch file, and then it is
> > not always easily seen whether there are newer upstream releases
> > available for these packages.  I suggest to add/update debian/watch with
> > your next updates of your packages.  Non-DD's are welcome to ask help
> > for that on debian-mentors@lists.debian.org .  Hint: test the
> > debian/watch file with "uscan --report-status".
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to make uscan disregard what seem like newer 
> versions, but are beta. The following illustrates the problem.

Yes, see "uversionmangle" in "man uscan".





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