Hi Jon, On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it worth investing much effort into debugging watch file > issues?
In my experience, yes. I can cite the example of the perl group: 679 packages group maintained. You'll guess that there's no way in earth a small group of people can track such amount of packages manually. We heavily rely on the watchfiles for detecting new upstream releases, and the tool we use (http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/qareport.cgi) automates that for us. We go to great lengths to make every package have the correct watch information. Of course, we have luck, because CPAN (99% of our packages come from there, and we have only 4 unsolvable watch problems) is pretty well-behaving and consistent, compared to other upstreams. But chances are that watchfiles can be useful for the majority of people. -- Martín Ferrari
