Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.50 Severity: normal Hi,
according to uscan's manpage: | --force-download | Download upstream even if up to date (will not overwrite local files, however) Now, consider this usecase: - I get notified of an updated package of mine, with a source package somewhere. - I dget it. - I want to check the orig tarball is what upstream has. - I run --force-download without --rename so that the foo-bar.tar.gz is fetched, and so that I can run *sum on both foo_bar.orig.tar.gz (from dget) and foo-bar.tar.gz (from uscan). That's why I tried to use “uscan --force-download”, which refused to download: | -(cy...@talisker pts/2)-(~/hack/debian/pkg-phototools/qtpfsgui.git) | $ uscan --force-download --verbose | -- Scanning for watchfiles in . | -- Found watchfile in ./debian | -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line: | http://sf.net/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-([0-9.]+)\.tar\.gz | -- Found the following matching hrefs: | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.2.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.2.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.5.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.5.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.6.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.6.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.8.10.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.8.10.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.8.12.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.8.12.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.9.0.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.9.0.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.9.1.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.9.1.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.9.2.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.9.2.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.9.3.tar.gz | /sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/q/qt/qtpfsgui/qtpfsgui-1.9.3.tar.gz | Newest version on remote site is 1.9.3, local version is 1.9.3 | => Package is up to date | Newest version on remote site is 1.9.3, local version is 1.9.3 | => qtpfsgui_1.9.3.orig.tar.gz already in package directory '..' | -- Scan finished Did I miss anything? Mraw, KiBi. -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- BTS_MAIL_READER='mutt -F ~/mail/perso.rc -f %s' DEBUILD_PRESERVE_ENVVARS=PATH -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.15.2 Debian package development tools ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.10.0-22 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii at 3.1.10.2 Delayed job execution and batch pr ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent ii bzr 1.15~rc1-1 easy to use distributed version co ii curl 7.19.5-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System ii dctrl-tools 2.13.1 Command-line tools to process Debi ii debian-keyring 2009.05.28 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D ii debian-maintainers 1.59 GPG keys of Debian maintainers ii dput 0.9.4 Debian package upload tool ii elinks [www-browse 0.12~pre3-2 advanced text-mode WWW browser ii epiphany-gecko [ww 2.26.1-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck ii equivs 2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package dependen ii fakeroot 1.12.2 Gives a fake root environment ii git-core 1:1.6.3.1-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii konqueror [www-bro 4:4.2.2-1 KDE 4's advanced file manager, web ii libauthen-sasl-per 2.12-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication ii libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1+b1 Support for https protocol in LWP ii libparse-debcontro 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control- ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.710.08-2 Client and server side SOAP implem ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii libwww-perl 5.826-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.07-1 fast, lightweight YAML loader and ii links [www-browser 2.2-1+b1 Web browser running in text mode ii lintian 2.2.10 Debian package checker ii lsb-release 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base version report ii lynx-cur [www-brow 2.8.7pre4-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup ii man-db 2.5.5-2 on-line manual pager ii mercurial 1.2.1-3 scalable distributed version contr ii openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-5+b1 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original ii patchutils 0.3.1-2 Utilities to work with patches ii strace 4.5.18-1 A system call tracer ii subversion 1.5.6dfsg-1 Advanced version control system ii unzip 6.0-1 De-archiver for .zip files ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii wdiff 0.5-18 Compares two files word by word ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available) ii devscripts-el 30.0-1 Emacs wrappers for the commands in pn gnuplot <none> (no description available) pn libfile-desktopentry-perl <none> (no description available) ii libnet-smtp-ssl-perl 1.01-2 SSL support for Net::SMTP ii mutt 1.5.18-5.1 text-based mailreader supporting M ii svn-buildpackage 0.6.24 helper programs to maintain Debian -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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