On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:48:52 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:02:13 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote: > >> > >> > I wonder how I might get a watch file for code.google.com working. > >> > >> Sounds like Google changed their HTML again, which broke the redirector > >> too: > >> > >> http://googlecode.debian.net/p/freemedform/ > > Please do not continue spreading the use of that redirector. Just because > there's one for sourceforge it doesn't mean it is okay to have one for other > hosting services. We ideally want *none*. > > Also, I never saw a reply to Iustin Pop's email (basically saying nobody had > actually contacted google code.) I don't really remember such a mail, I must've missed it. Going to look back into the archives. > Neither a "+1" or something to the ticket[1] opened by somebody else. > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=4042 I replied to #581622 though. However, trying to stay safe on the right side, I added a comment now. > > I would've had tons of emails from angry users asking why it didn't work, > > if the redirector was actually broken :) > > 16 packages use it, there should be none. I'd say "patches welcome", but I'm not the uscan maintainer. Only when uscan will support googlecode out of the box, or Google says it's not a desired thing, I'll shut the service down. If Google changes again, I find it better to change code in one place than in tons of debian/watch files. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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