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Re: watch files



-=| gregor herrmann, Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:54:25PM +0100 |=-
> +=head1 debian/watch handling
> +
> +Each package should have a watch file (F<debian/watch>) to make manual and
> +automatic checking for new upstream versions easier. The recommended format
> +for a watch file for a typical module I<libfoo-bar-perl> hosted on CPAN is:
> +
> + version=3
> + http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar/ .*/Foo-Bar-v?(\d[\d_.]+)\.(?:tar(?:\.gz|\.bz2)?|tgz|zip)
> +
> +(Scanning the distribution based CPAN URLs is usually much faster than
> +scanning /(by-)module/ ones; author-based URLs become invalid as soon as
> +there's a change in maintainership.)
> 
> Comments welcome!

No objections.

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