Package: devscripts Version: 2.13.5 Severity: normal Since recently (probably since the recent uscan changes), uscan still downloads upstream tar balls, but fails to rename them if debian/copyright is not in the machine-readable format.
Example: libstring-random-perl $ uscan --verbose --download-current-version -- Scanning for watchfiles in . -- Found watchfile in ./debian -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line: opts="uversionmangle=s/^v(\d)/$1/;s/^\.(\d)/0.$1/" https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random/ .*/String-Random-v?(\d[\d.-]+)\.(?:tar(?:\.gz|\.bz2)?|tgz|zip)$ -- Found the following matching hrefs: http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/String-Random-0.24.tar.gz (0.24) http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/String-Random-0.24.tar.gz (0.24) http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/String-Random-0.24.tar.gz (0.24) Newest version on remote site is 0.24, local version is 0.24 => Package is up to date Newest version on remote site is 0.24, local version is 0.24 => Forcing download as requested -- Downloading updated package String-Random-0.24.tar.gz uscan: error: syntax error in debian/copyright at line 1: line with unknown format (not field-colon-value) libstring-random-perl $ echo $? 25 libstring-random-perl $ ls -l ../libstring-random-perl*orig.tar.* ../String-Random*tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 abe tar 11303 Dec 6 12:51 ../String-Random-0.24.tar.gz libstring-random-perl $ head -2 debian/copyright This package was debianized by Paul Baker <pba...@where2getit.com> on Wed, 29 May 2002 17:19:00 -0500. libstring-random-perl $ -- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS="-k95930EDE -i" DSCVERIFY_KEYRINGS=/home/abe/.gnupg/pubring.gpg DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="-iIE --pedantic"
-- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.17.3 ii libc6 2.17-97 ii perl 5.18.1-4 ii python3 3.3.2-17 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii at 3.1.14-1 ii curl 7.33.0-1 ii dctrl-tools 2.23 ii debian-keyring 2013.07.31 ii dput 0.9.6.4 ii dupload 2.7.0 ii equivs 2.0.9 ii fakeroot 1.20-3 ii gnupg 1.4.15-1.1 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.11 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.03-1 ii libjson-perl 2.61-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.04-2 ii libparse-debcontrol-perl 2.005-4 ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.716-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii libwww-perl 6.05-2 ii lintian 2.5.19 ii man-db 2.6.5-2 ii patch 2.7.1-4 ii patchutils 0.3.2-3 ii python3-debian 0.1.21+nmu2 pn python3-magic <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 ii strace 4.5.20-2.3 ii unzip 6.0-10 ii wdiff 1.2.1-1 ii wget 1.14-5 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20131005cvs-1 ii build-essential 11.6 ii cvs-buildpackage 5.23 ii devscripts-el 35.8 ii gnuplot 4.6.4-1 ii gpgv 1.4.15-1.1 ii heirloom-mailx [mailx] 12.5-2 ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1500-1 ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.07-1 ii libnet-smtp-ssl-perl 1.01-3 ii libterm-size-perl 0.207-1+b1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-1 ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.27-2+b1 ii mutt 1.5.21-6.4 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:6.4p1-1 pn svn-buildpackage <none> ii w3m 0.5.3-12 -- no debconf information