Hi, > > Later a further improvement could be to generate a default configuration > > from d/upstream/metadata which would probably allow many packages to not > > need a d/watch anymore. > > While I like the idea, isn't d/watch used by Debian tooling to check if > new versions are available? I wouldn't say one should want to get rid of > it altogether. On the other hand, it could be nice if uscan provided an > option to create a template v5 d/watch if it doesn't find any, and finds > a suitable d/upstream/metadata instead.
FYI: I filed these to discuss more in details if d/upstream/metadata should be expanded and with what: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1111114 uscan: use upstream information from debian/upstream/metadata https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1111115 git-buildpackage: use upstream-vcs-tag and upstream-signatures from debian/upstream/metadata
