Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
There could be put Watch file in packages as recommendation to help the dehs[1]
statistic system.
Actually we have total source packages without watch file: 6080 on total source
packages: 8945. Of this 6080 we have
also 978 automatically generated watch
>The community might start considering it less useless if an
>explanation of what it is supposed to be good for was actually
>available. In particular, why should a maintainer care about watch
>files if he uses something else than uscan to keep track of upstream
>happenings?
>From time to time, th
After another gruelling discussion on #debian-devel about the useless of
dehs and the lack of watch file (75,60% of non native debian packages
doesn't had one), I think that dehs is start to begin only my own
personal toys, so i'm thinking to stop it and to leave alioth resources
and put my develop
> Then you should improve uscan and the watch format so that it can
> support more kind of packages.
>
Actually, the watch official format is defined by devscripts maintainer
(Julian Gilbey). I doesn't want to fork the official format, if we could
discuss about a formal format to be introduced i
off.
>
It isn't a dehs adoption, watch file are already specified in the 5.10
point of the Developer Reference and the watch file system was
introduced by the devscripts debian package for other purpose.
The problem about sending regular reports about Dehs (actually it runs
every two day)
Hi Manoj/Debian-policy mailing list,
I'm the developer of dehs information system [1] that i had also
integrated with some useful info in the developer qa information
system[2].
As you can see from here[3] 6250 not native source packages in debian
doesn't have a watch file on 8238 total non native
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