Hi, On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 02:29:29PM +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > Osamu, > with the get-orig-source I think I really messed up my explanation of > how I > see things. > > Once a maintainer has dtermined that the upstream download method is > too > whacky to expect uscan to cope, and has to resort to a get-orig-source > target in the debian/rules file, then yes uscan is out of the picture for > downloading the tarball. > > However uscan is also used in say the DDPO reports to identify when a > new > version is available. That function of uscan cannot be handled by > debian/rules but uscan could offer a wrapper around the get-orig-source > target to make that infomration available via the debian/watch interface. > > Does that make my point clearer?
Watch file to identify if there is new version or not get-orig-source to download etc. Hmmmm, that's easy addition. Question is is it valuable. Probably. Let me think a bit more. (clean-orig-source idea may not be too far as this report....) Some download script run after --report barrier ... interesting thought. Osamu _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
