Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi QA team, I am the maintainer of apt-listbugs.
The PTS page for my package [1] currently tells me: | A new upstream version is available: 0.1.8, | you should consider packaging it. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt-listbugs.html This does not look right, for at least two reasons: * first of all, apt-listbugs is a native Debian package: I would say that talking about an upstream version to be packaged is basically meaningless... * secondly, version 0.1.8 is (obviously) already in unstable, hence there's nothing yet to be packaged... $ rmadison apt-listbugs apt-listbugs | 0.1.3 | squeeze | source, all apt-listbugs | 0.1.7 | wheezy | source, all apt-listbugs | 0.1.8 | sid | source, all I think that native packages should be automatically excluded from the uscan runs by the PTS... By the way, why was uscan run for apt-listbugs in the first place? My package does not have any watch file (it's a native package after all, as I said...). I read on the Debian wiki [2] that DEHS also have a Watch Wizard, which guesses upstream URLs by looking at debian/copyright files. Is this the mechanism to be blamed? If this is the case, I am more and more convinced that native packages should be excluded. Maybe I could change something in the debian/copyright file [3], in order to avoid triggering the Watch Wizard, but it feels wrong to try to dodge the heuristics: it's the Wizard that should be a little smarter and know that native packages should not be examined... [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS [3] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/apt-listbugs/current/copyright Please clarify and/or fix this issue. Or otherwise, if there's something wrong in my package, please explain, and I will happily try to fix it. Thanks for your time! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121001173720.4710.23465.reportbug@homebrew
