On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:09:01PM +1100, Scott Leggett wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an issue with watch file usage in some software I'm trying to > package ( https://mentors.debian.net/package/compton ). > > Upstream does not release tarballs, instead preferring packagers to > build straight from git. I've followed the advice of the lintian report > for debian-watch-file-is-missing, and created a watch file with a few > comments explaining the situation. It looks like this: > > > #version=3 > #http://githubredir.debian.net/github/chjj/compton (.*).tar.gz > > # Upstream currently does not release tarballs or even tag releases, instead > # preferring packagers to work straight from git. > # When this situation improves, the watch lines above should work and this > # comment block can be removed. See https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/71
The redirector githubredir is obsolete, because github allows uscan now. It's possible that githubredir is still documented in some versions of "man uscan". You can choose to add a comments-only watch file or to leave out the watch file and ignore the lintian message. > > > This passes lintian fine locally, but when uploaded the mentors website > complains that "A watch file is present but doesn't work" (see the link > to my package above). You can ignore that. I guess mentors doensn't check for comments-only watch files. > > Is there something I can fix in the watch file, At first site upstream doesn't support uscan, so no. > or is the mentors website complaining unnecessarily? In my opinion, yes. > It seems strange that the website would complain while lintian does not. I guess mentors doesn't use lintian to check the watch file, hence the different behavior. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130226075614.ga29...@master.debian.org
