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Bug#976823: uscan: have an official way to document that there's no upstream source anymore

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El lun, 27 abr 2026 a las 18:04, Agustin Martin
(<agmartin@debian.org>) escribió:
>
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:16:59 +0200 Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 11:36:19AM +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> > > Package: devscripts
> > > Version: 2.20.5
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > User: devel@kali.org
> > > Usertags: origin-kali
> > > X-Debbugs-Cc: jelmer@debian.org
> > >
> > > There are cases where there's no upstream source anymore so we have
> > > nothing to put into debian/watch (either because there never was a real
> > > upstream or because the upstream repository disappeared). At the same
> > > time, the lack of debian/watch might just mean that someone forgot to
> > > create the file. So what I usually do is that I create a debian/watch
> > > file documenting the fact that I can't put anything in it... but the
> > > result is that uscan will fail and tools like the janitor bot that try to
> > > import a new upstream release will log an error, drawing the attention of
> > > developers on this specific package
> ...
> > > It would be better if there was a way to document that there's no upstream
> > > source and let uscan succeed while printing a warning. Maybe with a
> > > specific optional flag say "no-upstream".
> > >
> > Hi, Raphaël
> >
> > With debian/watch v5 this is partially (but only partially) done,
> >
> > $ cat debian/watch
> > Version: 5
> > Untrackable: Testing that this is untrackable.
> >
> > $ uscan --report ; echo $?
> > uscan warn: Untrackable project: Testing that this is untrackable.
> > 1
> >
> > So exit status is not what I would have expected (that is why I am not
> > closing this bug report).
> >
> > By the way, for some of my packages I am using the fake packages hack
> > by Eriberto Mota,
> >
> > https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/#fake-packages
> >
> > It has been very useful for my packages in the absence of a better
> > mechanism. It would be nice if something like this is implemented in uscan
> > itself.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been playing with a template for uscan that tries to do what
> Eriberto hack does (cc'ing Eriberto in case he wants to add
> something). It is sort of hackish, there should be no need of
> connecting to an external page to have this work, but I am attaching
> it as a proof of concept. I kept the '||=' to help with testings, but
> they should probably be just '='.
>
> It can be used with something like
>
> $ cat debian/watch
> Version: 5
> Template: Untrackable
> Reason: norelease
> # Forced-Version: 0.Custom-Excuse
>
> This does now show info with "uscan --report" and uscan returns 1; but
> I expect it to work similarly to Eriberto's hack.

s/does now/does not/

Attaching a minimally improved version of the template, also made
perltidy clean.

-- 
Agustin

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Bug#976823: uscan: have an official way to document that there's no upstream source anymore Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org> - 2026-04-27 18:10 +0200
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