Re: [Dehs-devel] Re: watch file check in lintian

2006-02-08 Thread Bluefuture
It's straightforward to do, but I think it's a bad idea due to the number of false positives. Many non-native packages in Debian have no upstream source (since upstream is dead) but are still useful and maintained. There is nothing useful that one can put into the watch file for such

Re: [Dehs-devel] Re: watch file check in lintian

2006-02-08 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:16:38PM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: I'm asking to jdg and other devscript developers if is it possible to support some official excuses in the watch file (and uscan) for example: version=3 debian-native or for any other offcially precoded excuses. Ugh. You mean

Re: [Dehs-devel] Re: watch file check in lintian

2006-02-08 Thread Bluefuture
Il giorno mer, 08/02/2006 alle 22.45 +, Julian Gilbey ha scritto: Ugh. You mean that for every native package I produce, I have to write a watch file to say there's no watchfile here. That sounds unpleasant. Julian Is there any way to tell to lintian that a package is debian