Hi, On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:44:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 23:28 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > As I thought about this bug report and https://bugs.debian.org/539780 , > > these share the same solution > > > > predefined string substitution applied to the watch file before any > > procerssing > > > > I can think of @package@ @version@ @suffix@ @YYMMDD@ ... as the > > candidates since no watch file uses @...@ I hope. > > I think these two requests are slightly different but I agree that > something your proposed solution to #539780 is definitely needed and is > probably a prerequisite for implementing #517637.
Yes. You do not want to pick tar.gz when tar.xz exists. > #517637 is more about, for watch files that do not use the proposed > @...@ syntax, if no files are found or if the package is up-to-date > then look for some newer files that use one of the common extensions. It now sort by version and suffix (with priority given to xz) with a bit rough huristics. Osamu
