Bug#458789: custom download scripts

Nicholas Bamber nicholas at periapt.co.uk
Sun Dec 6 16:03:34 UTC 2015


Osamu,
	I was just thinking about this because the internet is the modern day 
equiavlent of the Wild West.

	It seems the bug report is fairly old and quite a lot of what is talked 
about has been implemented. However the essential issue is that some 
packages just do not fit into the normal mode. "ksh" is an example. (The 
project is dead upstream so it deserves no consideration for that as 
well as being odd.) Such projects usually have a get-orig-source target 
in their rules file as specified in the policy: 
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html.

	So what we could do is build on that. The "custom" type watch file 
would run the "get-orig-source" target and treat a specified directory 
as the remote web page and parse that directory as if it were a web page.



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