>Hmmm, at least it is to hard for *me*, because I never successfully >managed >to get a working watch file. Well, the last time I tried was about two >years ago. Something might have changed. I accept bug reports with patches >to any of my packages where I'm not upstream.
For example For your package "wordnet" if you use my modded uscan_dirh2.pl (i hope that Julian Gilbey will integrate it in uscan.pl on devscripts debian package) from http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/dehs/trunk/uscan_dirh2.pl?rev=9 you could edit a watchfile : #begin of watch file version=2 ftp://ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu/pub/wordnet/(\d+\.\d+.*)/WordNet-([\d\.\d]+)\.tar\.gz #end of watch file after save it try to run : ./uscan_dirh2.pl wordnet wordnet <yourlastversionnumber> <watchfile> Tanks, Stefano