Bug#929816: RFS: simhash/0.0.20161225-1 [ITA] -- generate similarity hashes to find nearly duplicate files

[laokz <laokz@foxmail.com>]

Hello Adam,

Thanks for the quick reply and kind help.

在 2019-05-31五的 20:16 +0200，Adam Borowski写道：
> It's nice to see you taking up this package -- however, this is an upload
> to
> unstable during the freeze.  It's generally a bad idea; it would be better
> to either use experimental or to wait until Buster is released.
> 
Ah yes. I forgot that. Surely I'll keep this bug open and wait Buster
released.

> >  * d/{watch,source/lintian-overrides}: New version adds a watch file. It
> > is not very well but can do work.
> 
> It finds some old version for me:
> 
> uscan info: Newest version of simhash on remote site is 0.0.20110213,
> local version is 0.0.20161225
> uscan info:    => Only older package available from
>       https://github.com/BartMassey/simhash master
> 
Upstream repo has no release nor tags but 2 branches, one is 'master',
another is 'properly-unsigned-incompatible' which is more fresh. In order to
watch them all, I added two lines in watch file:

opts="mode=git, pretty=0.0.%cd" https://github.com/BartMassey/simhash
heads/properly-unsigned-incompatible
opts="mode=git, pretty=0.0.%cd" https://github.com/BartMassey/simhash
heads/master

>From uscan manpage and IRC help, it seems that above method not well
supported. By testing though, that could be useful: when 'properly-unsigned-
incompatible' update it gives me a new right tarball, when 'master' update
it can tell me there is an update. But uscan output looks a bit confused. I
prefer this than just watch a specific branch. (I don't know if this is
useful to CI/QA robot)

Best regards,
laokz