On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 02:21:08AM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: > Hi Manoj/Debian-policy mailing list, > I'm the developer of dehs information system [1] that i had also > integrated with some useful info in the developer qa information > system[2]. > As you can see from here[3] 6250 not native source packages in debian > doesn't have a watch file on 8238 total non native package. > This issue freeze the dehs information system in a quite unusable satus. > Dehs try also to generate automatic watch file for packages that doesn't > include one starting from the downlaod url finded in the copyright file > in the source of packages.
Hello Bluefuture, while I appreciate your effort with DEHS, I think you do not realise how many package cannot have useful watch files. I maintain 9 non Debian-native sources packages: 1 have no upstream website anymore. 1 has no upstream tarball. (The source tarball is made by aggregation of files found on the upstream website). 1 is not versionned upstream. 4 do not come with usable upstream tarball for Debian, so I need to repackage them. At the end, only 2 packages have a watch file, and only one is really usefull for me since I am upstream for the other and I well know when releases happen. On the other hand, most of my package that lacks a watch file implement the get-orig-source debian/rules target mentionned by policy. My personnal ratio is thus of 2/9=0.22, which is worse than the total of 0.24 for the whole archive, but cannot be improved. So it seems DEHS is either streching the importance of watch files or using them for a different purpose than the one they were made for. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
