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

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 11/09/06 at 15:01 +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:10:27PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:53:01PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > * Clear not-used entries from the sources file.
> > > 
> > >     OK.
> > 
> >     BTW, I'm cleaning those from my packages. Please do it with your own...
> 
> Well almost everyone, except Thierry, Ari and Daigo have removed their sources.
> The result will be: an empty file.  IMO the file can go.
> I have one upstream project for which a watch-file can not be made, but
> atm I have put it in our upstream cache[0] anyway.  Also for Hobix I am
> packaging SVN snapshots and these are put in the upstream cache too.
> Since the watch-file supports multiple URLs (does pkg-ruby-get-sources?) I
> have added both the upstream-cache URL and Rubyforge URL for Hobix and
> this seem to work fine too with uscan.
> 
> So.. both "trouble-cases" can be covered with the watch-files. If there
> are no objections, I'll remove the sources file and update
> pkg-ruby-get-sources accordingly soon?
 
I'm not sure. Maybe it's better to keep support for this in case it
becomes useful for a package in the future ?

We already removed and re-added it one time :)
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