Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > >> I want to create a watch file for a package that contains a single text >> file (which itself has the version into it): > ... >> The "repackage.sh" script would then just create a tarball: > > It seems like the right thing for uscan to do here would be to detect > the format of the downloaded file and pack it into a tarball if it > isn't one of the known ones.
I think that the case "one text file source" is quite rare. More often we will meet "one unusual package format" case in future -- like some new shiny packing format that is still unsupported by uscan. Therefore, it would be better to have a more flexible way to invoke a repacking script instead of mk-origtargz. The replacement of the "uupdate" at the end of the watch line was a good solution here -- why is this boycotted now?
