Re: Bug#773611: Fwd: RFS: histring/1.1.1-1 [ITP] - general purpose highlighting tool
>>>> * It may be a good idea to make releases as tarballs still, instead of
>>>> just making Debian releases, so that other distros can benefit as
>>>> well.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, he/she can tag the releases in git.
>>
>> True, that would also work. (Although it has the disadvantage that it
>> makes it difficult to automatically check for new releases using things
>> like watch files.)
>
> Yeah, that's unfortunate. All my release histring tarballs are under
> https://github.com/suntong001/histring/archive/
> however github block the access to that folder.
> Do other distros user watch files or something alike?
I've looked it up, and it seems Fedora does something sort of like it:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring
In any case, you're right that I can't access
https://github.com/suntong001/histring/archive/, but I can still access
your release tarballs at https://github.com/suntong001/histring/releases!
I've made a sample d/watch:
version=3
opts=dversionmangle=s/-[0-9]//,uversionmangle=s/-[0-9]// \
https://github.com/suntong001/histring/releases
/suntong001/histring/archive/(.+)\.tar\.gz
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