On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:09:01PM +1100, Scott Leggett wrote:
Hi,
I've got an issue with watch file usage in some software I'm trying to
package ( https://mentors.debian.net/package/compton ).
Upstream does not release tarballs, instead preferring packagers to
build straight from git. I've followed the advice of the lintian report
for debian-watch-file-is-missing, and created a watch file with a few
comments explaining the situation. It looks like this:
#version=3
#http://githubredir.debian.net/github/chjj/compton (.*).tar.gz
# Upstream currently does not release tarballs or even tag releases, instead
# preferring packagers to work straight from git.
# When this situation improves, the watch lines above should work and this
# comment block can be removed. See https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/71
The redirector githubredir is obsolete, because github allows uscan now. It's
possible that githubredir is still documented in some versions of man uscan.
You can choose to add a comments-only watch file or to leave out the watch
file and ignore the lintian message.
This passes lintian fine locally, but when uploaded the mentors website
complains that A watch file is present but doesn't work (see the link
to my package above).
You can ignore that. I guess mentors doensn't check for comments-only watch
files.
Is there something I can fix in the watch file,
At first site upstream doesn't support uscan, so no.
or is the mentors website complaining unnecessarily?
In my opinion, yes.
It seems strange that the website would complain while lintian does not.
I guess mentors doesn't use lintian to check the watch file, hence the
different behavior.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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