On 02/09/15 10:57 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 September 2015 22:42:27 Alexandre Viau wrote:
>> On 02/09/15 10:35 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
>>>  Why not use something like this:
>>>     http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-go/packages/golang-gogoprotobuf.gi
>>>     t/commit/?id=f70e004c
>> Are you talking about the filenamemangle? It tells uscan to rename the
>> tarball properly.
> 
> Isn't that what uscan's "--rename" argument does? Probably `origtargz` does 
> not need it either. I don't use "filenamemangle" for GitHub and I've never 
> had any problems without it...
> 
> Actually I'm talking about the whole thing, including use of "/tags" instead 
> of "/releases" etc...

Looks like /tags contains more than /releases. I'm not sure if one is
better than the other. This is somewhat documented here:
 -
https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#list-releases-for-a-repository

>> Otherwise, the name of the tarball would be "v1.0.0.tar.gz". Which is
>> not very verbose.
> 
> Not sure about it althought it could be because I have
> 
>     USCAN_SYMLINK="rename"
> 
> in "~/.devscripts"... Anyway "sepwatch" repo does not use "filenamemangle" 
> for GitHub.

I have tested. The tarball is named "v1.0.0.tar.gz" and a symlink is
created. Looks like both solutions work fine.

Simpler is always better. I have removed the filenamemangle and pushed a
new version of the watch file.

Thanks :)

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Alexandre Viau
alexan...@alexandreviau.net

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