Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.9 Severity: wishlist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
It would be nice to supporting parsing .lsm files. ..lsm files contain information useful to uscan such as Version and Primary-site which is all uscan needs to know. At ibiblio.org there's some information on the .lsm-files format[1] (current version is 4, but AFAIK 3 is very similar). Supporting these files _could_ (I don't really have any statistical number) increase the number of packages using debian/watch files because upstream does provide a .lsm file. Parsing .lsm files would not provide a great benefit, so it might be better to support parsing the whole LSM database[2] but that would be more complicated ;-) Example/Proposition of a debian/watch file for a package with a .lsm file: - --- version=4 http://foot.at.bar/foss/pub/foo/foo.lsm - --- Example/Proposition of a debian/watch file indicating a LSM database to be parsed (for the suck package): - --- version=4 lsmdb+http://lsm.qqx.org/lsm/LSM suck - --- Note that on my last example I used 'lsmdb+http', this would make it easier for uscan to identify the file format. This is because it is not *possible* (in the above example it is, but let's better don't assume anything) to identify the file format by its URI. Of course 'protocols' like lsmdb+ftp, lsmdb+https should also be possible. I'm willing to collaborate on the addition of this feature but I don't think I can do it all by myself (in a short period of time, because of lack of free time for one more project). [1] http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/LSM-TEMPLATE.html [2] http://lsm.qqx.org/lsm/LSM Sincerely, Raphael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHOQ6OYy49rUbZzloRArUpAJ9VYWV8s3TR9aKzAsCiCQVwOjycxACeL0SD gtzSf+uYvY/nqvP8qFF3bp0= =L/I5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
