Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > On Sat, Apr 07 2018, Ole Streicher wrote: > >> Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: >>> 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. > > See discussion in #515856.
Maybe I didn't read it too carefully, but I didn't find the argument why get-orig-source is not kept for the cases where uscan doesn't do the job. And when I extrapolate from my packages, this is not an exceptionally rare case. Best regards Ole
