UDD with new upstream version

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, April 14, 2011 03:00:23 PM Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I decided to try UDD again for a new upstream version that was just
> released.
> 
> I was following the documentation here:
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/Documentation/NewUpstreamVer
> sion
> 
> I got to this step:
> 
> bzr merge-upstream --version 1.2 http://example.org/releases/foo-1.2.tar.gz
> 
> and after considering this would require me to look up the exact download
> address on sourceforge, decided to back up and do:
> 
> apt-get source opendkim
> cd opendkim-2.3.1
> uscan
> 
> instead.
> 
> I don't know if this is a documentation shortfall or it's really that much
> more complicated, but documenting/updating so this works easily with watch
> files would be a big win.
> 
> Scott K

In fairness, it turned out the watch file didn't work because I guess 
sourceforge changed their file layout again, but it generally does, so the 
point still stands.

Scott K