[Buildroot] Package informations, online and updated

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:53:44 +0100,
Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury.org> a écrit :

> uscan: http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uscan
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git;a=blob;f=scripts/uscan.pl
> 
> uscan wants to find a separate 'watch' file inside a debian/ dir. It
> actually looks like it might not be that hard to hack up uscan.pl so
> it just takes the watch line as an argument (though it's been a number
> of years since I hacked any Perl), then each package could have a
> check-upstream-version target which uses the watch line defined in
> that packages makefile and invokes the buildroot 'fork' of uscan.pl to
> check whether a newer release is available upstream. I don't know if
> any other distros have a similar sort of system, it just strikes me
> there's not much point reinventing the wheel here and it's handy to be
> able to just lift the watch regex from the debian/watch file for many
> packages.

Looks nice. Patches? :-)

Thomas
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