Bug#822649: devscripts: uscan: Please add an option for not displaying output if upstream == debian and no errors occur

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Tue Apr 26 01:30:44 UTC 2016


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:24:00PM -0400, Unit 193 wrote:
> uscan has now started being much more verbose after 2.16 when checking for newer versions,
> this is nice I'm sure if you're only scanning a couple of packages, but if you have any number
> then it's hard to see the trees through the forest.
> 
> Please add an option less verbose than --no-verbose such that only errors or warnings appear if
> the local version of the package is the latest upstream too.

This shouldn't be an option.  It should be the default.  The behavior
should be comparable to how uscan behaved before 2.15.10.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>



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