Package: qa.debian.org User: qa.debian....@packages.debian.org Severity: wishlist Usertags: udd X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Xiyue Deng <manp...@gmail.com>
The uscan results provided by UDD are based on d/watch file from the latest released version of the package which it fetches using .dsc[1]. While this works, it also means that fixing any existing uscan errors requires a new release of the package. This shouldn't be a big issue if the upstream provides regular releases. However, for upstream that is not very active, making a new release just to fix uscan errors may be a bit overkill. Alternatively, I wonder whether it can be considered that if the d/control provides the location of Debian packaging source repository either through Vcs-* or Dgit, UDD can optionally use that information to checkout the repository and use the d/watch file there to update uscan results so that any errors can be fixed through a commit only. Of course this adds some more complexities and points of failure such as - invalid Vcs-* or Dgit, or - broken d/watch in the repo. In such cases we may just fall back to the old ways to use the d/watch in the release package which effectively reverts to the current behavior. Just wondering whether this is a direction that's worth considering. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/udd/-/blob/master/rimporters/upstream.rb#L20-35
