Re: about debian/watch

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:26:24PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Aug 15 2009, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > You may want to look in the "uscan"'s man page, where there is an
> > example of how to watch files on SourceForge via http://sf.net/
> 
> Is there anything wrong with SF's redirector these days?

Yes, see:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/08/msg00255.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/08/msg00065.html

> 
> A package of mine has a watch file that I believe is correct and DEHS
> was showing that the version of the package upstream was the same as the
> one in Debian until, say, two or three days ago.
> 
> Now, it shows this:
> http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/report.php?package=avr-evtd
> 
> Is there anything that has changed in the last few days?

Yes, see:
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/qa/trunk/wml/watch/sf.wml?view=log

Regards,

Bart Martens