On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:13:36PM +0200, Bluefuture wrote: > i had tried to implement a Watch filler function for dehs that run daily > on alioth[1]. > There are 6510 package without watch file[1]. > I had run "watch filler" on this packages for try to make an > automatically generated Watch from "Copyright" file of packages. i have tried soemthing like that in the past too. you could add a test for a prdownloads.sf.net page with the projects' name, that will work for ~15% of all packages without watch files. you will also find out that the problem is not that it is so hard to create watch files for the maintainers, but that quite some just don't want a watch file in their package... <sigh> cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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