On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > get-orig-source and watch files serve a different purpose. > > > > get-orig-source is used to build the .orig. tarball from the true > > upstream one. Most package do not need that. Watch files could not do > > that until recently. > > > > So the comparaison is unfair. > > > > What need to be checked is how many get-orig-source rules has been > > reimplemented in term of watch files. > > Challenge accepted. ticharich.d.o has an unpack of rules debian/rules > files. Most of them are world-readable. A small number (~30) are > inaccessible, so my analysis will have an error of around 0.2%. > > A simple method is to just look at which of them contain the string > "get-orig-source" and which of them contain the string "uscan" assuming > that when both show up, get-orig-source is implemented using uscan.
One would need to check whether get-orig-source use uscan for repacking or if it only use uscan for downloading and then repack manually. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
