Upstream releases on GitHub (was: Generating upstream version from git history with uscan)

2016-06-08 Thread Ben Finney
Mo Zhou writes: > (Keep me in CC list please) Done. > I'm working on some packages whose upstream (github) doesn't make > releases. So I need to invent upstream versions, that's OK. Can you appeal to upstream to make releases? The Upstream Guide https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#Releases_a

Re: Generating upstream version from git history with uscan

2016-06-08 Thread Alexandre Viau
Hello! On 08/06/16 09:13 AM, Mo Zhou wrote: > I read all the uscan examples, and it seems that uscan > works basing on http and ftp only. That is to say uscan > will not scan Git repos so the above demand won't be > satisfied. `man uscan` will tell you that there is a `git mode`. Unfortunately, t

Generating upstream version from git history with uscan

2016-06-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi folks, (Keep me in CC list please) I'm working on some packages whose upstream (github) doesn't make releases. So I need to invent upstream versions, that's OK. However when one is going to maintain a number of packages that watch is not present, upstream update tracking by hand would be a nig