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Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.



On Tue, 02 Sep 2008, Brandon wrote:
> The current upstream is:
> http://www.xevil.com/download/stable/xevilsrc2.02r2.zip
> Unfortunatley, the following watch line won't work:
> http://www.xevil.com/download/stable/xevilsrc(*.).zip
> because directory listings are (403) forbidden.
> 
> Also, xevil is a dead project. The latest release was years ago, and
> Satan doesn't respond to email. Would you guys recommend not having a
> watch file? Even if so, I would really like to know how I would solve
> this problem, if it needed solving. For the future.
> 
> -Brandon

Hi Brandon,
If xevil is a 'dead project' having a watch file that doesn't do anything
isn't very helpful either. Instead consider adding a lintian override or an
empty watch file explaining why the watchfile is missing.

BTW, IANADD, so listen to other opinions before doing something.

Regards,
Mauro

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