Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.18 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/uscan
A lot of packages (collaboratively) maintained with versioning repositories do not have upstream tarballs committed in the repository. It is a common need to download the usptream tarball of a given package, no matter if the version reported in debian/changelog is up to date or not wrt upstream version. Since uscan knows how to get upstream tarball it seems to me a good candidate for such a job. It would be enough to add a --force-download flag which downloads upstream tarball no matter the comparison among debian and upstream versions. Could you please add such an option to uscan? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.15.6 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.13.18 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.4-7 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.5.8 Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
