[Pkg-zsh-devel] How to proceed with zsh's watch file?

[Richard Hartmann]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Bart Martens <bartm at debian.org> wrote:


> The homepage http://www.zsh.org/ suggests sourceforge for "global".  If
> the ftp
> server was down at that time, then writing a new watch file based on
> sourceforge was the obvious choice.
>

The watch file is there to notify of new versions, humans will need to
react anyway.

zsh.org gets the tarballs before sf.net. Thus, the watch files triggers
earlier but nothing of consequence happens.

I would prefer to leave it pointed at zsh.org.



> This also produces 5.0.0 but if upstream would start using versions with
> dashes
> then it would not select them :
> Of course [\d.]+ is more strict.  If upstream would start using versions
> with
> dashes or letters then these versions would not be selected.
>

IMO, it's better to be strict about this rule and adapt it if needed. I
didn't see pws announce dashed/lettered version numbers so they will not
happen in the foreseeable future.


Richard
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