Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

2009-04-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: One additional thought: We store packaging Vcs and upstream homepage in debian/control. What about storing upstream Vcs there as well and teach uscan to look there as well. Just a rough thought. And do what with it? how will it know what it should

Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

2009-04-04 Thread Raphael Geissert
Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: One additional thought: We store packaging Vcs and upstream homepage in debian/control. What about storing upstream Vcs there as well and teach uscan to look there as well. Just a rough thought. And do what with it? how

Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

2009-04-03 Thread Daniel Leidert
Ben Finney wrote: Raphael Geissert atomo64+deb...@gmail.com writes: I planned to add support for svn in version 4 watch files (it would be a matter of svn info svn://domain.tld/path/to/repo and some data massaging). But well, now that everyone is talking about it why not just tell

Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

2009-04-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Daniel Leidert wrote: I would like to propose a complete rethinking of the watch files. We have several packages, which must be prepared from a VCS or must be repckaged. ATM several people changed to use something like $url $pattern debian /bin/sh get-orig-source-script

Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

2009-04-03 Thread Raphael Geissert
Andreas Tille wrote: [...] One additional thought: We store packaging Vcs and upstream homepage in debian/control. What about storing upstream Vcs there as well and teach uscan to look there as well. Just a rough thought. And do what with it? how will it know what it should look for?

Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

2009-04-03 Thread Raphael Geissert
Ben Finney wrote: [...] For my purposes, I would like to be able to specify “fetch from the VCS at $URL, getting the specific working tree referenced by identifier $ID” and then the rest of what uscan does for generating an original source archive from the working tree. That's made more

Re: Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

2009-04-03 Thread Raphael Geissert
[No CC please] Daniel Leidert wrote: [...] I would like to propose a complete rethinking of the watch files. We have several packages, which must be prepared from a VCS or must be repckaged. ATM several people changed to use something like $url $pattern debian /bin/sh

Improvements to ‘debian/watch’ for fetching from VCS (was: This topic died off; any resolution?)

2009-04-02 Thread Ben Finney
Raphael Geissert atomo64+deb...@gmail.com writes: I planned to add support for svn in version 4 watch files (it would be a matter of svn info svn://domain.tld/path/to/repo and some data massaging). But well, now that everyone is talking about it why not just tell what is missing so that it