Hi, On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 3:33 AM Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@debian.org> wrote: > > The missing-debian-watch-file-standard tag triggers for a lot of debian/watch > files that have no contents, or only contain comments.
The watch file is probably not the best place to add manual download instructions. For aladdin, it looks like a different version of the link is listed in d/copyright. In addition to upstream metadata, there is also README.source [1] which I personally find the best place to document how to get sources. For an example, please consider ppp: [2] # How to create a snapshot from git: # # mkdir GIT # git clone git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/ppp.git # cd .. # # rsync --delete --archive --verbose GIT/ppp/ ppp-2.4.5~$(date +%Y%m%d).orig/ --exclude=.git # cp -a ppp-2.4.5~$(date +%Y%m%d).orig/ ppp-2.4.5~$(date +%Y%m%d)/ # Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#source-package-handling-debian-readme-source [2] https://sources.debian.org/src/ppp/2.4.6-3.1/debian/README.source/
