On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:11:26PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:06:59PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > Nobody says that get-orig-source must be only used for repackaging > > purposes. I think it is fine to have such target just getting the > > upstream source (ok a hash checking against a previously checked > > and trusted version is required) without further modifications > > over it which is to be built on the autobuilder or end user side. > > Any worries with that ? > > This sounds, to me, to be bordering on redundancy with the purpose > of including a debian/watch file, as both would likely be pointing > to similar sources (one for new versions, one for the current > version with a MD5 hash as a sanity check). To take it even further, > I'd be interested in a marriage between the upstream source location > in debian/copyright and a target in debian/rules that would allow > you to: > > a) eliminate the need to put the upstream URI in multiple files > b) subsume or at least auto-generate a debian/watch, as desired > > Maybe have a machine-parsable URI in debian/copyright (since policy DEHS actually falls back to heureustically guessing the upstream URL from the copyright file if no watchfile is present.
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