On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:51:58AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > That makes sense. > > > > But could we do it transparently, i.e., have people write something > > like: > > > > http://sf.net/project/... > > > > in their watchfile and uscan do the translation automatically. Then > > if something stops working, we either modify the php script or uscan, > > and only one package needs fixing, rather than hardwiring a hack into > > all of these watchfiles. > This makes sense too; but its still subpar. If uscan doesn't work for > people, they'll complain, at best, or just hardcode an sf.net URL that > Works For Them, which breaks for everyone outside a mirror zone, or on > days ending in 'y'. I think uscan has to work all the time, not just > after a 2.5 day "high priority upload" grace period. Otherwise people > will upload when they're done updating their package, because they > don't feel like waiting for uscan (or fiddling with unstable), and > (correctly) don't feel like guessing the right syntax and hoping it > works, or they just forget.
So could we have uscan simply translate http://sf.net/project/... in a watchfile into http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/project/... The former makes more sense for the end user than having to put the latter in a watchfile manually. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
