Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 10:40:42AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> writes: >> > Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: >> >> 4.9 >> >> The ``get-orig-source`` rules target has been removed. Packages >> >> should use ``debian/watch`` and uscan instead. >> > >> > Especially for this, my ‘debian/rules’ files thank you. >> >> I have some packages where the version is not encoded in the file name, >> but must be extracted from the file content. Shall one keep >> get-orig-source here to be consistent, or what would be the right >> solution here? > > get-orig-source merely isn't described by the Policy any more, it is no > different from an arbitrary private target you have in debian/rules.
Sure, but why do we give up a common rule? I think the cases where d/watch does not work are not so rare (at least I have quite a number of them), and keeping them unified is not the worst thing we can do. Best Ole
