On 04/19/2011 09:03 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Evgeni Golov <evg...@debian.org> writes: >> We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it >> would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control > > How many packages are there that are not using a watch file because > upstream does not provide usable tarballs (either no tarballs or they > are behind some changing dynamic web site layout)? > > Would it be a completely silly idea to extend uscan to support git in > addition to HTTP and FTP that it currently supports?
And SVN, bzr, hg, CVS, Darcs, did I miss someone? :) This is imho the task of the get-orig-source rule in debian/rules (which needs a generic helper so not everyone has to invent the wheel again, but thats a different topic). Regards Evgeni -- 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/4dae97e9.9040...@debian.org
