Joachim Wiedorn <ad_deb...@joonet.de> writes: > What is with deactivated watch files, because upsteam is dead? > > For a short time I had this case with the package d4x: upstream > homepage is deleted, there is no more upstream development.
There is also the set of packages where the upstream files are available, but not distributed in a form that ‘uscan’ can use. > My wish: A string like "upstream dead" in debian/watch can say DEHS, > the watch file is o.k. while there is no link. There seems to be some discrepancy in how these cases are treated. As an example, the ‘lojban-common’ package contains a ‘debian/watch’ file that consists only of comments. The current DEHS page for this package reports “no errors” <URL:http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/report.php?package=lojban-common> and shows the comments (currently with an encoding error) as part of the report. But the QA summary for the same package reports “Error” for the Watch column <URL:http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?packages=lojban-common>. It even links to the DEHS page, which says there *isn't* any error. I think this would be a useful convention: have the ‘debian/watch’ file in all cases, but where upstream doesn't enable use of ‘uscan’, explain what the situation is in the file's comments. -- \ “Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best | `\ way to predict the future is to invent it.” —Alan Kay | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871vggahu4.fsf...@benfinney.id.au
