On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:09:37PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Is it really desirable to use an imperative feature (run this Makefile
> rule to get the tarball), when there is a declarative way of doing it
> (the watch file) as well?
Yes, but that discussion does not belong here. Check policy, use
cases, or related discussions. (And, BTW, a lot of uscan options are
totally non-declarative ...)
> I’d say as long as someone does not have to modify the tarball, using
> debian/watch and uscan should be preferred to coding stuff in
> get-orig-source.
... but well, *modifying* tarball is exactly the main use case of
get-orig-source.
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