Hi, it looks to me as if these scripts could be useful also for a local checked out working directory, at least for some of them which retrieve files needed during compilation. We could also perform some other tasks, e.g. to avoid the makefile/Makefile trick by Josip under /international/l10n ;)
For instance, webwml/ pre_build Call scripts under scripts_prebuild/ scripts_prebuild/ 1Maintainer Get ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/Maintainers 1lists_cfg Get http://murphy.debian.org/lists.cfg 5countries_def Generate english/template/debian/countries.def 5l10n Generate english/international/l10n/data/langs ... download_area/ Directory where downloaded files reside This is trivial, I will do if you believe it is useful. Denis PS: cron/daily_updates/1lists.cfg is not executed since ``filenames should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens''.