[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#840745: Bug#840745: dh-make-elpa: create a skeletion debian/watch even without upstream branch

[Sean Whitton]

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Dear Lev,

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 05:27:55PM +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote:
> currently if there's no upstream branch in a repository, then dh-make-elpa do
> not create debian/watch file. It would be nice to have at least a skeletion
> debian/watch file. The reason for that is that non-existence of debian/watch is
> not critical to build a package and even integrate it into the archive, so
> sometimes it is quite easy to overlook that debian/watch is needed to create.
> For example, I forgot about it already three times! :-D

Lintian should warn you about this.[1] I'm reluctant to create a
template watch file since that would prevent that Lintian warning.  Or
is there some useful template you had in mind that would still trigger
Lintian?

[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-watch-file-is-missing.html

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Sean Whitton