On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:09:13PM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > > > > Not so many packages use the watch file. > > this is true, I opened [1] a thread exactly about this and why increasing the > number of watch files is good, probably the best thing to do is to manually > file > bugs providing (working) watch files to packages, then the maintainer will > choose if use it or not, whether he/she is in direct contact with upstream > developers. indeed another good suggestion is to add a lintian/linda warning > as > suggested by Riku Voipio [2] >
I personally prefer to register at freshmeat for every main package I manage. In some cases following cvs and the program's development mailing list is also a must. Some minor packages have not a stable enough url for downloading. Anyway, it could be a good suggestion. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
