Bug#782677: udd: scripts/update-upstream-status: should consider sepwatch
Hi,
On 28/06/15 at 09:08 +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> It already exists. We have cgi-bin/udd-dehs which reads from mole.watch. So I
> don't know why scripts/update-upstream-status would even run uscan.
Because the UDD implementation predates a working mole.watch. DEHS died,
then there was nothing to replace it, and UDD's implementation was
created. Then someone duplicated it in mole.
Given that the UDD implementation works, I have no interest in switching
to mole's.
I'm not sure who are the current users of the mole implementation, but
it feels quite young to bet that it will be a better basis on the long
run.
Also, even if I understand the problem that sepwatch is trying to solve
(= provide a faster update path for some packaging metadata), I think
that this is a problem that should be addressed more globally, by
centralizing that metadata somewhere managed by ftpmasters, in a way
similar to what happens with overrides: the maintainer suggests a value,
but it can be overriden. That way, upstream checkers won't even have to
unpack source packages.
However, if someone did the work to implement sepwatch in UDD's
implementation, I would welcome the patch.
Lucas
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