Packages without watch file

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Fri Dec 31 05:49:04 UTC 2010


Hi,

Am Freitag, den 31.12.2010, 11:17 +0530 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Am Donnerstag, den 30.12.2010, 12:16 -0300 schrieb Martín Ferrari:
> > 2010/12/30 Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org>:
> > >> How about a specially formatted comment? We already have something
> > >> like that for changelogs (for ignoring some trivial non-uploaded
> > >> changes).
> > >>
> > >> I am thinking in something like:
> > >> /^#\s*IGNORE(?:.*)$/
> > >> for a optional comment on the reason for ignoring
> > >
> > > that’d be optimal for our purposes.
> > 
> > Done. Please chech that the merge I did into darcs/ is correct, please.
> > The regex is finally: /^#\s*IGNORE(?:\s|$)/
> > 
> > I also fixed a problem I discovered by chance. Many errors in the
> > watch file processing were handled with a 'next', aborting the rest of
> > the processing of the package. Hope it is correct now.
> 
> thanks, works just perfectly.

that being said, another possible minor improvement comes to my mind:
How about adding a title information to the „Ignore“ string on the web
interface, containing the contents of the # IGNORE line (assume that
reasons are specified there), and turning it into a link to the full
watch file?

Greetings,
Joachim


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