[proftpd] Proposal for debian/watch

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 04:28:06PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
>Hi Frankie,
>
>1. exclude doc/rfc during uscan download

This is a great idea, indeed to avoid doing annoying handiwork.

>2. Switch to passive FTP.
>

About that probably it is time to use github tagging, instead.

>What do you think?
>
>hille at debian-amd64-sid:~/devel/proftp_debian/git/proftpd$ git diff
>diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
>index 99fea8b..fa362d9 100644
>--- a/debian/copyright
>+++ b/debian/copyright
>@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Upstream-Contact: The ProFTPD Project team, TJ 
>Saunders <tj at castaglia.org>
> Source: http://www.proftpd.org/
> Comment: The DFSG tarball is created by removing by hand the rfc/ folder
>  distributed by upstream, because IETF RFCs license is not compatible.
>+Files-Excluded:
>+ doc/rfc
>
> Files: *
> Copyright: 1997, 1998 Public Flood Software
>diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
>index 1500157..0359d34 100644
>--- a/debian/watch
>+++ b/debian/watch
>@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> version=4
>-opts="dversionmangle=auto" ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-([\d\.]+[a-z]?\+?[a-z]*)\.tar\.gz
>+opts="repack,compression=gz,dversionmangle=auto,passive" ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-([\d\.]+[a-z]?\+?[a-z]*)\.tar\.gz
>
>Hilmar
>-- 
>sigfault
>
>




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Francesco P. Lovergine