Re: Authoritative way to find debian upstreams?

2005-08-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shachar Shemesh wrote: >Amos Shapira wrote: > > > >>It's a reasonable way to find these things, I can live with it, though I was >>hoping for a more "mechanical" way - after all - doesn't debian provide >>some sort of "ftp-watch" tools for maintainers to watch for new upstream >>versions (forgo

Re: Authoritative way to find debian upstreams?

2005-08-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Amos Shapira wrote: >It's a reasonable way to find these things, I can live with it, though I was >hoping for a more "mechanical" way - after all - doesn't debian provide >some sort of "ftp-watch" tools for maintainers to watch for new upstream >versions (forgot the tool's names, but I saw it pop

Re: Authoritative way to find debian upstreams?

2005-08-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8/26/05, Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/copyright ? > > That would be the official place. > > The other option is in the package description, but that that is a newer > form and not all packages have that yet. It's not yet mandated by

Re: Authoritative way to find debian upstreams?

2005-08-26 Thread Baruch Even
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:18:33AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>Is there an authoritative way to find the upstream source >>of debian packages? >> >>For instance, I was looking today for the upstream source of >>"smssend", the place where the Debian packag

Re: Authoritative way to find debian upstreams?

2005-08-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:18:33AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Is there an authoritative way to find the upstream source > of debian packages? > > For instance, I was looking today for the upstream source of > "smssend", the place where the Debian package maintainer of > "smssend

Authoritative way to find debian upstreams?

2005-08-25 Thread amos
Hello, Is there an authoritative way to find the upstream source of debian packages? For instance, I was looking today for the upstream source of "smssend", the place where the Debian package maintainer of "smssend" looks for the latest version. I had to google a bit before I found it. That's no