On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 18:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes: > > > Given that we already have a tool that can download upstream > > sources, with or without mangling, and can be used by facilities > > outside of the unpacked Debian source package to determine if there was > > new versions and to download unmangled versions, is there any need to > > retain the get-orig-source target at all? > > I had no idea that uscan could do this. I think this is a cleaner > solution to most of my problems. > > However, I don't think this helps with the original problem on the thread > where upstream uses only a VCS. I think that's a bad idea, but some > upstreams do it, and right now uscan doesn't handle that sort of case (and > it's rather outside its current purpose). Sure it does: # Upstream homepage links to a file called puzzles.tar.gz which # redirects to puzzles-r$version.tar.gz. uscan can't check that. # However, this is a nightly snapshot numbered according to the SVN # revision number, so we can extract the version number from its web # view. version=3 opts="filenamemangle=s/.*\?rev=(\d+).*/sgt-puzzles_$1.orig.tar.gz/,downloadurlmangle=s@.*\?rev=(\d+).*@http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles-r$1.tar.gz@"; \ http://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/puzzles/ /sgt\?rev=(\d+)\&view=rev OK, so it's not exactly pretty... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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