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Re: watch-wizard



On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Bart Martens wrote:

> Do you mean "keep it" as in "keep doing thousands of pointless http/ftp hits on
> a regular basis just for a few hundred good uscan results" ? Or do you mean
> "keep it" as in "keep it for manual use to write watch files" ?

When you put it like that, running it on a regular basis doesn't sound good.

I'd suggest:

Improve it a bit (zipre for eg)

Add it to devscripts.

Run it on new copyright files/homepages and if it produces a good
watch file then save the result. If not drop the result and don't
check this package again until the copyright file is updated. Watch
files saved as a result of this should be overridden by human-written
watch files from packages and also from watch file contributors.

Use it for generating a template for user-contributed watch files.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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