[CC'ing debian-qa since it might be of some interest] On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:08:12PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On [14/01/04 1:13], Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > > Usually it is expected for a DD to follow or at least be subscribed to program > > developing, while this is true for big projects this is false for small projects > > and there using debian/watch would be really useful. Unfortunately it is not > > habit to include the file, possible solutions are to mass-filing wishlist bugs > > I'm not in favour of this idea, since I've working relationships to the > upstream authors of the packages that I maintain. They always inform me > via e-Mail if they make a new release and sometimes even which changes > the release contains. So I'm not going to include an watch files since > there's no need for them and I would close any bugreport asking for > them. Using watch files should be an individual decision for each > maintainer to use or not. indeed it is individual but I think the general case is: (busy) maintainer with a lot of small packages and subscribed to <software>-devel mailing list, so it's easy to miss a new release of a software. There watch files might help instead of the casual user browsing the website and notice the package is not up-to-dated. OTOH having the PTS stating "new upstream version available blah blah" can reduce BRs like "hey, a new release is out! could you please update this package?" kind regards and thanks for feedback! filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature below: I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. -- Groucho Marx
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