Re: Debian package upstream watching
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:01 AM, T o n g wrote:
> Is it the package maintainer's job to watch for upstream releases?
Yes. There are some automated mechanisms but they aren't perfect and
can't help in the case where an upstream moved to a different website,
changed its tarball naming scheme or got forked. In any case it would
be better if you were involved with upstream enough that you know when
new releases are coming.
> How does this Debian package upstream watching works *practically*?
>
> From http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/ I have the impression that I
> have to come up with a scheme to call the uscan program on regular basis,
> whereas from http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS I have the impression that DEHS
> is doing that. The problem is that it publish to the summary mlist
> (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html).
> I.e., to get a notification of a single upstream package update
> notifications, the S/N ratio would be extremely low.
DEHS is dead but its replacement in the QA infrastructure is running
uscan on the debian/watch files from source packages on a regular
basis and there will be a notice added to the PTS page when there is a
new upstream version available. Notices of new upstream releases don't
get sent via email because not every maintainer would want them.
> So, what's the *practically* way to get a notification of a single
> upstream package update?
Watch the PTS, run uscan manually and or subscribe to the upstream mailing list.
--
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pabs
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