Re: how to take advantage of uscan for git upstream source with only commits (read no tags) ?
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I am on my way to package a software whose the upstream source is available at github with only commits:
> the upstream team uploads new material the last Friday of each month, but without emitting any tags.
> Can we use uscan (version 4) for such a scheme ?
While uscan now supports checking remote git repositories, it relies
on git tags to find new releases so that feature isn't useful to you.
You might be able to use pagemangle or one of the other new features
to hack around this, depending on the content of the github HTML.
The best would be to convince upstream to do proper releases (with
tags and tarballs) and sign the commits, tags and tarballs with
OpenPGP.
https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch#Cryptographic_signature_verification
https://help.riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/best-practices
At worst you could set yourself calendar reminders for every Friday/Saturday.
If you want more specific info, you would need to mention a crucial
detail; which github project is this?
--
bye,
pabs
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