[Dehs-devel] Re: watch file check in lintian

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:14:31PM +0100, Bluefuture wrote:
> As strategy to increase the number of watch files in debian packages[1]
> (actually at 30%) is there any developer that know lintian internal to
> add checks for watch file? Is this needs a collaboration between lintian
> and Devscripts developers (about checks done by uscan in watch file
> format)?

IIRC this has been discussed before, I personally would not add a lintian
warning for missing watch file. Top reasons for this I've heard are: "many
maintainers are also upstream" and "many maintainers closely follow upstream
mailing lists"
Surely such warning will improve the number of watch files but IMO will generate
a lot of fuss with very little gain.

filippo
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