On Thursday 02 April 2009 14:03:06 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[email protected]> writes: > >> What I would personally like to do is have a watchfile that has this > >> snippet. > >> > >> # Run an external script for checking and/or downloading new upstream > >> source use-check-script=debian/path-to-script \ > >> use-check-script-options="a b c ..." \ > > > > I strongly *object* to adding such a feature because it is very likely > > that such scripts can't be accessed by DEHS. Either because the foo > > package providing the bar tool is not installed or as simple as the fact > > that DEHS _only_ extracts the watch file from the .diff and *not* the > > whole .orig. > > What would be really useful is if uscan could unpack the contents of the > downloaded tarball, run a custom script in it, and then repack the > tarball. You can find an example of such a script at [1]. >
uscan already provides a similar feature (but no unpacking is done): http://.../file-... debian path/to/script Please refer to uscan(1) > DEHS and similar services only need to check for new versions, but not > really repack them. So this option certainly shouldn't be enabled by > default. > > [1] > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/ffmpeg-debian.git;a=blob;f=debian/s >trip.sh;hb=HEAD > > >> use-download-script=debian/path-to-script \ > >> use-download-script-options="a b c ..." > > > > Why are two options needed for this? > > E.g. use-download-script="debian/path-to-script a b c ..." \ > > I think the script should be called with the new version of the package > that was detected and downloaded. This way the script can cope with > changes to the structure of the upstream sources. > > If such a thing was already available, please let me know. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
