Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > I was looking at this recently, and wanted to get things set up properly to > use a debian/watch file.
Great! > Do you happen to know why the following watch file doesn't find the > new release with 'uscan'? > > version=3 > ftp://ftp.unixodbc.org/pub/unixODBC/unixODBC-(.+)\.tar\.gz uscan --report --debug shows that it's confused by unixODBC-Beta1.0.6.tar.gz. Changing the capture to ([0-9].*) avoids that, choosing 2.3.5-pre. To recognise such versions properly, I use uversionmangle like this: version=3 opts=uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha)\d*)$/$1~$2/ \ ftp://ftp.unixodbc.org/pub/unixODBC/unixODBC-([0-9].*)\.tar\.gz Unfortunately (judging by the file list) unixODBC upstream is even more inventive about release numbering, so this may still need extending. > I'd like to get this sorted so that I can do a "proper" update now and going > forward, but uscan syntax and behavior has always seemed unnecessarily > opaque to me. I have to agree. I think version=4 is supposed to help with that. -- Regards, Feri
