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my suggestion for multiple upstream tar balls



I was thinking about this. Since packages are supposed to be worth the packaging overhead what do you do about a series of very small plugins consisting of just a few lines? CPAN is full of such modules and libcgi-application-plugins-perl is another good example.

The obvious thing to me would seem to be to store the current versions in
debian/source/versions

This file would consist of lines of the form
URL space version-number  new-line.

Although human readable and part of the packaging source code, it would be maintained entirely by uscan and driven by the watch file. uscan would not bother to create a versions file if there was only one rule in the watch file and the version number in debian/changelog made sense to it.
begin:vcard
fn:Nicholas Bamber
n:Bamber;Nicholas
org:Periapt Technologies
email;internet:nicholas@periapt.co.uk
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:http://www.periapt.co.uk
version:2.1
end:vcard


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