On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 06:52:27AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > According to codesearch.d.n, get-orig-source is implemented by less than > 3000 source packages. This is not very low, but neither a high adoption > rate. It certainly makes using get-orig-source somewhat useless on a > distribution-scale. In contrast, we have some 22500 watch files, an > order of magnitude more. I think it is obvious which mechanism has won.
get-orig-source and watch files serve a different purpose. get-orig-source is used to build the .orig. tarball from the true upstream one. Most package do not need that. Watch files could not do that until recently. So the comparaison is unfair. What need to be checked is how many get-orig-source rules has been reimplemented in term of watch files. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
