Bug#531321: my suggestion for multiple upstream tar balls

[Nicholas Bamber]

I was thinking about this. Since packages are supposed to be worth the 
packaging overhead what do you do about a series of very small plugins 
consisting of just a few lines? CPAN is full of such modules and 
libcgi-application-plugins-perl is another good example.

The obvious thing to me would seem to be to store the current versions in
debian/source/versions
This file would consist of lines of the form
URL space version-number  new-line.

Although human readable and part of the packaging source code, it would 
be maintained entirely by uscan and driven by the watch file. uscan 
would not bother to create a versions file if there was only one rule in 
the watch file and the version number in debian/changelog made sense to it.
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