[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] Fate of the sources file

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Patrick wrote:
> Paul van Tilburg schrieb:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > With the upcoming 0.11 upload of the ruby-pkg-tools and the sources list
> > begin deprecated 0.10 we have to decide on the fate of this file.
> > I propose, after talking about this with Lucas, to:
> >
> > * Use watch-files primarily, when possible.
> > * Use the sources file as fallback when a watch-file is not possible.
> >
> > If we decide to do this, we need to take the following actions.
> >
> > * Change pkg-ruby-get-sources to follow the above two steps.
> >   Possible it is done this way already?
> > * Clear not-used entries from the sources file.
> >
> > Any objections? Thoughts?
> 
> well the main problem is, what happens if the upstream source is not
> tagged with a version .. then we'd have to use the deprecated source
> file .. Of course for all these libraries that do not apply to that, we
> should use watch files only, as this is also more debian compliant.
> So I'd suggest we keep it for backwards compatibility.

Yes, that is also what I suggested ;)
Write sources that can not be found via the watch system in the sources
file.

Paul

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