Bug#748474: clean-orig-sorce target (custom download scripts)

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 02:29:29PM +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> Osamu,
> 	with the get-orig-source I think I really messed up my explanation of how I
> see things.
> 
> 	Once a maintainer has dtermined  that the upstream download method is too
> whacky to expect uscan to cope, and has to resort to a get-orig-source
> target in the debian/rules file, then yes uscan is out of the picture for
> downloading the tarball.
> 
> 	However uscan is also used in say the DDPO reports to identify when a new
> version is available. That function of uscan cannot be handled by
> debian/rules but uscan could offer a wrapper around the get-orig-source
> target to make that infomration available via the debian/watch interface.
> 
> 	Does that make my point clearer?


Watch file to identify if there is new version or not
get-orig-source to download etc.

Hmmmm, that's easy addition.  Question is is it valuable. Probably.

Let me think a bit more.

(clean-orig-source idea may not be too far as this report....)

Some download script run after --report barrier ...  interesting
thought.

Osamu