On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 23:33 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> I am behind a fascist firewall that only allows pasv ftp connections and
> I tried to run uscan with a package that I was trying to debug.
> 
> Unfortunately, it took me a long time to discover the cause of the
> problem, because, even when I used the debug option, it told me that the
> regular expression could not be matched and, therefore, I started
> looking for a broken expression.
> 
> IMVHO, uscan (and siblings) using perl's library should
> die/carp/whatever before going to the regexp matching phase if the page
> could not be downloaded or if it returned a 0-lenght reply.

Looking at the code, it certainly should be aborting if the download
failed.  Please could you provide the output of running uscan against
the watch file in question using the --debug option to help debugging
(no pun intended) your issue?

Regards,

Adam




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