Package: maven-debian-helper Version: 2.4 Severity: wishlist For Subversion-distributed source packages, mh_make generates d/orig-tar.sh to download and clean up the upstream tarballs. Since devscripts 2.20.1 uscan is capable to directly access Subversion repositories using mode=svn (implemented similarly to mode=git).
It would be beneficial if mh_make could generate watch files with mode=svn instead of d/orig-tar.sh as such watch files could be used by qa.debian.org to automatically scan for new upstream releases. The sole caveat, IMO, is the cleanup of upstream tarball, which is usually done in generated d/orig-tar.sh: tar -c -J -f $TAR --exclude '*.jar' --exclude '*.class' $DIR However, I think the same could be achieved via Files-Excluded stanza in d/copyright. Andrius
