Re: debian/watch sourceforge

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz> writes:

> having troubles get my watch file work on sourceforge files.

Yes, Sourceforge makes it inordinately difficult to get direct access to
the tarballs.

In brief: the only way ‘uscan’ can reliably get files from Sourceforge
is to not get them via Sourceforge :-) See the man page ‘uscan(1)’ for
specific mention of dealing with tarballs published at Sourceforge.

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Ben Finney