On su, 2007-08-05 at 18:34 -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote: > You mean, we shouldn't use watch files within packages? That's > possible, > of course, but it's the maintainers' job to inform QA or any other group > of monkeys where future release should be fetched. The static package of > course will point at a dynamic location, anyway. > > How could we avoid watch files to get outdated anyway? It can get > outdated from inside or outside the package. It's better to be inside > the package anyway.
I am afraid I disagree: a watch file inside a package cannot be updated without updating the package. That means watch files in packages in a stable Debian release are not going to get updated, they are there just to confuse people with old and wrong information. Having the watch file in a central place, where more or less anyone can update them (say, on Alioth in a suitable version control repository) sounds to me to be a much better way. -- Latest nerd movie: Once were hackers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
