Package: devscripts Version: 2.20.5 Severity: wishlist User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali X-Debbugs-Cc: jel...@debian.org
There are cases where there's no upstream source anymore so we have nothing to put into debian/watch (either because there never was a real upstream or because the upstream repository disappeared). At the same time, the lack of debian/watch might just mean that someone forgot to create the file. So what I usually do is that I create a debian/watch file documenting the fact that I can't put anything in it... but the result is that uscan will fail and tools like the janitor bot that try to import a new upstream release will log an error, drawing the attention of developers on this specific package. Example: $ cat debian/watch version=3 # This is just a script that was posted on a website. No download available. $ uscan --report; echo $? 1 It would be better if there was a way to document that there's no upstream source and let uscan succeed while printing a warning. Maybe with a specific optional flag say "no-upstream". Desired result: $ cat debian/wa version=4 opts=no-upstream $ uscan --report; echo $? uscan info: no upstream sources are known, skipping without failing 0 Thank you for considering this request!
