Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-05-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
James Vega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: >> James Vega wrote: >> > >> > Any tool that a developer may use in the process of maintaining >> > packages which leaves a file in debian/ now has to be documented in >> > policy? >> >> No, but this is the mai

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > James Vega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:24:59PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > >> James Vega wrote: > >>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I find no official documentation on

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
James Vega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:24:59PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: >> James Vega wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. >>> man uscan >> >> I mean in policy or refere

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:24:59PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > James Vega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >> I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. > > > > man uscan > > > I mean in policy or reference or such of

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Raphael Geissert wrote: >> >> Once I file the bug reports I will be giving about two weeks before I >> remove the hack from DEHS and later from the DDPO. The lintian check has >> been around for many months now and it has given maintainers enough time >> to prepare a

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
James Vega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. > > man uscan I mean in policy or reference or such official docs. Now it is a generic convenience (for maintaner) file. These is also no

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I find no official documentation on format of debian/watch files. man uscan -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-30 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: Once I file the bug reports I will be giving about two weeks before I remove the hack from DEHS and later from the DDPO. The lintian check has been around for many months now and it has given maintainers enough time to prepare an upload to fix some bugs on their packages

Two watch files-related MBFs

2009-04-29 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi all, == First proposed MBF: DEHS and the DDPO both have hacks to remove the 'dfsg' part of Debian's version number in case the watch file doesn't do it on its own. This hack is not just ugly, but also bogus. I would therefore like to file bug reports (severity: minor) against the packages that