Bug#819418: fte: watch file broken

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Package: fte
Version: 0.50.2b6-9

Hi,

Samuel Henrique Oltramari Pinto wrote with subject "Accepted fte
0.50.2b6-9 (source) into unstable)":
>    * debian/watch: Create.

This is contra-productive. :-(

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fte now claims that there is a new
upstream release while there isn't.

fte upstream has the annoying behaviour to _not_ put the version
number but the release date into the tar ball file names which is why
there never has been a watch file in the past. See
/usr/share/doc/fte/changelog.gz:

  0.50.2b6 -- <fill month here> 2011
  […]
  0.50.2b5 -- March 2010

Hence we _cannot_ check for new versions with watch files unless we
change the version number of the package. I recommend to _not_ change
the version number to only use the date based numbers. A proper
upstream version number which would work with an according watch file
would be e.g.

  0.50.2b6-20110708

I'm tempted to do another QA upload to fix this false positive. The
other option would be to either remove the watch file or the comment
out its content.

		Regards, Axel
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