Bug#979478: maven-debian-helper: generate d/watch with mode=svn for Subversion-distributed source packages

[Andrius Merkys]

Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 2.4
Severity: wishlist

For Subversion-distributed source packages, mh_make generates
d/orig-tar.sh to download and clean up the upstream tarballs. Since
devscripts 2.20.1 uscan is capable to directly access Subversion
repositories using mode=svn (implemented similarly to mode=git).

It would be beneficial if mh_make could generate watch files with
mode=svn instead of d/orig-tar.sh as such watch files could be used by
qa.debian.org to automatically scan for new upstream releases. The sole
caveat, IMO, is the cleanup of upstream tarball, which is usually done
in generated d/orig-tar.sh:

tar -c -J -f $TAR --exclude '*.jar' --exclude '*.class' $DIR

However, I think the same could be achieved via Files-Excluded stanza in
d/copyright.

Andrius