>- a "searchmode=plain" line option can be used to parse the full
>   content of a web page instead of searching only <a href*> tags
>   (#897382), useful for JSON contents. Example:

Cool, I just wrote a hack for such a functionality in one of my project :-)

Cyr


On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:42 PM Xavier <y...@debian.org> wrote:

> Dear fellow developers,
>
> devscripts 2.18.5 has been released and brings some new uscan features
> for developers:
>  - in git mode, uscan is now able to verify signed tags (#827065).
>    Example:
>
>     version=4
>     opts="mode=git,pgpmode=gittag" \
>       https://github.com/rs/net-server-mail refs/tags/v([\d\.]+) debian
>
>  - a "searchmode=plain" line option can be used to parse the full
>    content of a web page instead of searching only <a href*> tags
>    (#897382), useful for JSON contents. Example:
>
>      version=4
>      opts="searchmode=plain" \
>        https://registry.npmjs.org/aes-js \
>      https://registry.npmjs.com/aes-js/-/aes-js-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@
>
>  - new macro @DEB_EXT@ (#908528). Example:
>
>      dversionmangle=~s/[\+~](debian|dfsg|ds|deb)(\.)?(\d+)?$//
>
>    becomes:
>
>      dversionmangle=~s/@DEB_EXT@//
>
>  - new "auto" value for dversionmangle (#908528). The above example
>    becomes simply:
>
>      dversionmangle=auto
>
> Hope this will be useful for you all !
>
> A big thank you to Mattia for accepting these changes and for his
> patience in this long work.
>
> NB: While making these changes uscan underwent a huge refactor, so
> please file any bug you may find in this new version, and we shall fix
> them for the next release.
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier
>
>

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