Bitbucket changed download page - possibly lots of watch files affected (Was: Help needed for watch file after bitbucket changed download page)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Nilesh,

Am Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:43:58PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra:
> I don't know how to go about it, but I suspect -devel might be a better list for this since this is a general question and many package maintainers could be using bitbucket sources.

While I considered debian-mentors@l.d.o usually the proper list to find
a solution for problems in watch files I agree that this should be made
public also on debian-devel.  It seems quite some packages are affected:

   https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3Adebian%2Fwatch+bitbucket&literal=1

My guess is that most of these watch files might be not working any more.
May be gitmode as proposed by Juri Grabowski[2] is a promising solution
(but as I wrote in my response it does not create the link to orig.tar.gz).

Kind regards

     Andreas.
 
> On 29 September 2022 12:54:47 pm IST, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >the watch file for metabat[1] used to work nicely until some point in
> >time when bitbucket replaced `v@ANY_VERSION@` by the commit ID which is
> >not sensibly sorting any more.  Is there any trick how I can get
> >bitbucket pages working again?
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> >     Andreas.
> >
> >[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/metabat/-/blob/master/debian/watch

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2022/09/msg00153.html 

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