Re: uscan roadmap

[Yadd <yadd@debian.org>]

On 01/12/2021 21:07, Patrice wrote:
> Really great!
> And could the new uscan read a watch file from version 3/4/5 and output a
> version 5 of it by its own (in-place or stdout)?
> uscan --standardize
> :-)

Yes but without optimization neither scheme (except some few fields). 
Example:

  version=4

  opts=uversionmangle=s/-/~/g,pgpmode=none \
   https://...  .*(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@

will be translated into:

  Version: 5

  Source: https://...
  Regex: .*(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@
  Uversionmangle: s/-/~/g

You'll have to manually modify it into

  Version: 5
  Scheme: stable

  Source: https://...