Bug#530639: dh-make-perl: watch file should ignore development releases

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 26 May 2009 11:50:25 -0300, Brian Cassidy wrote:

> The watch file generated by dh-make-perl seems to allow development versions
> (i.e. _XX in the version string).
> I believe the default behavior should ignore these releases for a few reasons:

I have no strong opinion either way; IIRC we started to include them
because for some modules it does make sense (rare stable releases,
bugs fixed in dev releases, ...) and it's easier to "see and ignore"
dev releases than to just ignore them. But I'm also fine if we remove
the _ from the group of allowed characters.

As a side note for the pkg-perl group:
If we skip dev releases in dh-make-perl we should also change
scripts/packagecheck and probably some docs on the website that use
the same line as dh-make-perl's created watch file.
(Trivial, we just shouldn't forget it :))

Cheers,
gregor
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