Hello, On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 07:50:13AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Le 30/09/2020 à 18:12, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias a écrit :
> > and either: > > > > - using the officially released .tbz archive that for example > > dune-release produces, which will contain the right metadata for > > version numbers, etc... > > > > - or if using a git checkout, `dune subst` _must_ be run before the > > build so the metadata is update prior build. > > Oh... I wasn't aware of that. The policy in Debian is to take the > officially released .tbz. On the other hand, it is common to take a git > checkout, either because it is easier to monitor newer versions, or > because generated stuff are a pain. I don't know what motivated Ralf to > take a git checkout in the case of lablgtk3. that was indeed the reason. I will see wheather I succeed to tweak the debian/watch file to look for the official release tarballs. -Ralf.

