Bug#449630: texlive-doc: debian/watch fails to report upstream's version

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> HI Frank!
>
> On So, 11 Nov 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> TEXLIVE_REPOS=svn+ssh://wherever make orig-tar-gz texlive-base?
>
> No, not from the repo directly, but could be done trivially, add a shell
> wrapper which downloads svn://whatever to a temp dir.
>
> But this gives you some Gb ...
>
> Do we need it ?

I don't know... What I think we need is a reliable way to create
orig.tar.gz which can be repeated by anyone. And ideally can be checked
by a watch file.

Whether this involves downloading a zip file, or checking out a
repository, or just checking whether a given repository is really what
an argument or environment variable claims, that I don't care.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)