Bug#505857: lintian: false positive debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version

[Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>]

Hello,

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:17:05 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:21:09AM +0100, Jiří Paleček wrote:
> > I'm getting a lintian warning an the package ltp:
> >
> > W: ltp source: debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version
> >
> > however, the watch file in question actually does mangle the version on
> > the line
> >
> > opts=dversionmangle=s/\+.*$// \
> > http://sf.net/ltp/ltp-full-([0-9]+)\.tgz debian git-import-orig
> >
> > which correctly changes 20081031+dfsg to 20081031.
>
> I think the check is fooled by your overreaching regex. If you
> replace it with s/\+dfsg.*$// it should stop complaining.

That's posibble, but I think the check is stupid. I don't want to make the  
regexp more specific, because I sometimes make packages versioned like  
"20081031+other_stuff+dfsg-1" and I want uscan to work on this too. It  
would probably be possible to silence the check by

 s/\+.*(?!dfsg)$//

which would totally defeat the purpose of the check.

Regards
    Jiri Palecek