control: tag -1 -patch +pending Hello,
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:01:19PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > get-orig-source and watch files serve a different purpose. > > > > > > get-orig-source is used to build the .orig. tarball from the true > > > upstream one. Most package do not need that. Watch files could not do > > > that until recently. > > > > > > So the comparaison is unfair. > > > > > > What need to be checked is how many get-orig-source rules has been > > > reimplemented in term of watch files. > > > > Challenge accepted. ticharich.d.o has an unpack of rules debian/rules > > files. Most of them are world-readable. A small number (~30) are > > inaccessible, so my analysis will have an error of around 0.2%. > > > > A simple method is to just look at which of them contain the string > > "get-orig-source" and which of them contain the string "uscan" assuming > > that when both show up, get-orig-source is implemented using uscan. > > One would need to check whether get-orig-source use uscan for repacking > or if it only use uscan for downloading and then repack manually. Good point, but note that such cases can almost certainly migrate to uscan -- and if they can't, that's a bug in uscan. We're not rendering those packages buggy with this change, because it's fine to continue to have a get-orig-source target. We're just reducing the documented interfaces of packages a bit based on current trends, which is useful for newcomers to Debian. -- Sean Whitton
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