Hi, my name is João Eriberto Mota Filho.

  Please call me Eriberto.

  I am Brazilian and a Debian Developer. My official site is here.

  My main focuses are packaging and helping new maintainers.

  Thanks for visiting. See below some interesting items.

 

Summary

 

My fake packages for debian/watch:

To avoid a false impression that you ignored the watch file by laziness and to inform an actual status, I created three fake packages. These packages indicate if there is no upstream site, if there is no upstream release, or if there is a package on the upstream site but it doesn't allow tracking it (using a JavaScript to block it, for example).

Some people are using my fake packages and you can see the results in my DDPO. Look at 0.No-Site, 0.No-Release and 0.No-Track.

Feel free if you want to use this solution.



	Version: 5

	Source: https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/
	Matching-Pattern: FakeWatchNoUpstreamSiteForThisPackage-(\d\S+)\.gz
	Dversionmangle: s/.*/0.No-Site/

or

	Version: 5

	Source: https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/
	Matching-Pattern: FakeWatchNoUpstreamReleaseForThisPackage-(\d\S+)\.gz
	Dversionmangle: s/.*/0.No-Release/

or

	Version: 5

	Source: https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/
	Matching-Pattern: FakeWatchNoUpstreamTrackingForThisPackage-(\d\S+)\.gz
	Dversionmangle: s/.*/0.No-Track/

	* debian/watch: added a fake site to explain about the current
	  status of the original upstream homepage.

 

How to write a good debian/watch easily

There is a post about it in my personal blog. To read it, click here.
Important tip: you can use the command: 

  $ uscan --update-watchfile
to convert the debian/watch version 4 to version 5.

 

Debian: how to use blhc to solve hardening issues when packaging

Another post in my personal blog. To read, click here.

 

Some interesting links in Debian Project

 

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