[gentoo-dev] [RFC] euscan: Need to add more upstream info in metadata.xml

2012-08-10 Thread Federico fox Scrinzi
Hi everybody! euscan is available in portage as a dev package (app-portage/euscan-). This tool allows to check if a given package/ebuild has new upstream versions or not. It uses different heuristics to scan upstream and grab new versions and related urls. euscan can use either custom

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] euscan: Need to add more upstream info in metadata.xml

2012-08-10 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Having done some debian packaging for work, I find watch files from debian really helpful. Changing the format to a XML compatible one does not seem like a hard work so I'll probably leave that up for others to discuss. Since you are proposing this, a side question is: Why should we write SRC_URI

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] euscan: Need to add more upstream info in metadata.xml

2012-08-10 Thread Corentin Chary
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: Having done some debian packaging for work, I find watch files from debian really helpful. Changing the format to a XML compatible one does not seem like a hard work so I'll probably leave that up for others to