Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> writes: > Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> wrote: >> Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: >>> On Sat, Apr 07 2018, Ole Streicher wrote: > [...] >>>> 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. > > Imho Sean's last mail sums it up pretty well > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515856#94
I have read this, but it does not convince me. My rule to get the upstream packagage was always: use uscan, if d/watch exists, otherwise use get-orig-source. Sounds pretty simple and straigt-forward. If it fails, I had a starting point where to debug (usually just a missing dep). I see no reaso why this should be given up. Cheers Ole
