Package: devscripts Severity: wishlist User: [email protected] Usertags: uscan
For upstreams that store their downloads in a directory tree with one branch per directory, maintainers might want to exclude release candidates but uscan currently only considers the newest directory, which might only contain release candidates, resulting in not being able to see the latest stable release. uscan should scan each directory in descending order of version until at least one file was found. When this is fixed, this sentence needs removing from the manual: (If multiple directories match, the highest version is picked.) Here is an example of a watch file that would be fixed by this: pabs@chianamo ~ $ cat watch version=3 https://cmake.org/files/(v[\d.]+)/cmake-([\d.]+).tar.gz pabs@chianamo ~ $ uscan --watchfile watch --verbose --package cmake --upstream-version 3.5 uscan info: uscan (version 2.16.8) See uscan(1) for help uscan info: Option --watchfile=watch used uscan info: Process ./watch (package=cmake version=3.5) uscan info: Last orig.tar.* tarball version (from debian/changelog): 3.5 uscan info: Last orig.tar.* tarball version (dversionmangled): 3.5 uscan info: dir=>/files/ dirpattern=>(v[\d.]+) uscan info: Requesting URL: https://cmake.org/files/ uscan info: Matching pattern: (?:(?:https://cmake.org)?\/files\/)?(v[\d.]+) uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: ?C=N;O=D uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: ?C=M;O=A uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: ?C=S;O=A uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: ?C=D;O=A uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: / uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: LatestRelease/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: Tutorial.tar.gz uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: contracts/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: contrib/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: cygwin/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: dev/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: lapack_test.tar.gz uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: logos/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: mongochem-sample.json.bz2 uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: radiance/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: temdata/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: tmp/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: tpl/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v0.5/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v0.6/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v0.7/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v0.8/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v1.2/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v1.4/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v1.6/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v1.8/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v2.0/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v2.2/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v2.3/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v2.4/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v2.6/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v2.8/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v3.0/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v3.1/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v3.2/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v3.3/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v3.4/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v3.5/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v3.6/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: v3.7/ uscan info: Matching target for dirversionmangle: vCVS/ uscan info: Found the following matching directories (newest first): v3.7/ (v3.7) v3.6/ (v3.6) v3.5/ (v3.5) v3.4/ (v3.4) v3.3/ (v3.3) v3.2/ (v3.2) v3.1/ (v3.1) v3.0/ (v3.0) v2.8/ (v2.8) v2.6/ (v2.6) v2.4/ (v2.4) v2.3/ (v2.3) v2.2/ (v2.2) v2.0/ (v2.0) v1.8/ (v1.8) v1.6/ (v1.6) v1.4/ (v1.4) v1.2/ (v1.2) v0.8/ (v0.8) v0.7/ (v0.7) v0.6/ (v0.6) v0.5/ (v0.5) uscan info: newest_dir => 'v3.7' uscan info: Requesting URL: https://cmake.org/files/v3.7/ uscan info: Matching pattern: (?:(?:https://cmake.org)?\/files\/v3\.7\/)?cmake-([\d.]+).tar.gz uscan warn: In watch no matching files for watch line https://cmake.org/files/(v[\d.]+)/cmake-([\d.]+).tar.gz -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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