Bug#1041824: src:volume-el: disable d/watch and sync to latest head version

[Manphiz <manphiz@gmail.com>]

Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> writes:

> Manphiz <manphiz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> I have been trying to fix uscan error of Emacs addon packages.  When
>>>> working on volume-el, I found that the repo on salsa didn't accept merge
>>>> requests while most other packages did.  If it can open up merge request
>>>> access it would be great and I have some pending d/watch fixes.  Thanks
>>>> in advance!
>>>
>>> This may indicate that the Uploader wants patches rather than MRs, and
>>> at the very least may indicate the Uploader doesn't want to monitor
>>> Salsa for MRs.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation, Nicolas!  Totally make sense.
>
> You're welcome!
>
>> Done.  A little bit of explanation for the changes:
>>
>> * Upstream never had any tags, so uscan will always fail, so disable
>>   d/watch for now.  This will result in an empty uscan results.
>
> Why is breaking notification of any future upstream tags better than
> using uscan's git mode?  Uscan's git mode will notify when upstream
> pushes any commit, with or without a tag.  Help is available in
> #debian-mentors if writing an output format line that is suitable for
> volume-el's existing version scheme is too challenging.
>

Hi Nicolas,

Before implementing tracking all upstream commits, I wonder whether this
is a good idea.  AIUI we use uscan to track upstream tags for releases
instead of tracking development activity.  If upstream doesn't provide
releases or tags, I think it's up to the maintainer whether to use a new
upstream head as a new release.  However if we use uscan to track that I
wonder whether it may cause extra noise like in udd.debian.org or
tracker.debian.org as it may notify all upstream activities.

What do you think?

> Regards,
> Nicholas

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Manphiz