<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi, Thank you Rohan, Fabrice, and Jackson for the helpful advice. After reading, I am confident that I can make good use of the watch file. But before I conclude, I want to clarify something. So this is what mine would look like (taken directly from the Ubuntu PG watch page) [1] <blockquote> <pre class="screen"># watch control file for uscan version=3 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/pylang/+download">https://launchpad.net/pylang/+download</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://launchpad.net/pylang/.*/pylang-(.+).tar.gz">http://launchpad.net/pylang/.*/pylang-(.+).tar.gz</a> </pre> </blockquote> Notice I get the package from launchpad. Is it correct? Will this work on future versions, regardless of what number the three digits may hold? (pylang-#.#.#) What if I did something like this: <blockquote> <pre class="screen"># watch control file for uscan version=3 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/pylang/+download">https://launchpad.net/pylang/+download</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://launchpad.net/pylang/.*/pylang-(.+).tar.gz">http://launchpad.net/pylang/.*/pylang-(.+).tar.gz</a> debian uupdate</pre> </blockquote> Say the package will be available on both Debian and Ubuntu, but first through Ubuntu. Do I need to include "debian uupdate" [2]? Why or why not? I'm assuming that they apply to Debian and not necessarily to Ubuntu. Thanks very much! [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/debian-dir-overview.html#the-watch-file">http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/debian-dir-overview.html#the-watch-file</a> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/uupdate.1.html">http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/uupdate.1.html</a> 2013년 08월 09일 23:47, Rohan Garg 쓴 글: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:1413973.p8E0avrT6u@solembum" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">After hanging out at the motu channel for a bit, I was recommended to write a watch file. Now, what exactly does it do, and how can I use it? Fetch the up-to-date dependencies? I guess that would mean a line per dependency. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/">https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> A watch file specifies where to look for new upstream releases of a source, uscan [1] is a tool that parses the watch file and downloads the latest tarball if there is a newer release. A watch file does NOT fetch the dependencies of a source itself (assuming that is what you meant in your original mail). Watch files are also used by UEHS [2] to show packages that can be updated in Ubuntu. The equivalent site for Debian would be DEHS [3] Note that you also should read up on uupdate [4] and this [5] Regards Rohan Garg [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/uscan.1.html">http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/uscan.1.html</a> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/uehs/no_updated.html">http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/uehs/no_updated.html</a> [3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/">http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/</a> [4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/uupdate.1.html">http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/uupdate.1.html</a> [5] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/debian-dir-overview.html#the-watch-file">http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/debian-dir-overview.html#the-watch-file</a> </pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- John Kim Ubuntu QA & Doc Contributor <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:johnkim.ubuntu@gmail.com">johnkim.ubuntu@gmail.com</a></pre> </body> </html>