Re: uscan roadmap

[Yadd <yadd@debian.org>]

On 01/12/2021 22:16, Yadd wrote:
> 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://...

Done, uscan from 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/251 is already:

 * natively working with watchFiles version 5
 * able to read old versions transparently (using a wrapper)
 * able to convert files from version 3/4 to 5 (using the same
   wrapper), and probably versions 1/2 (not fully tested):

     uscan --update-watchfile

   Don't us it for now except for tests, key names will probably change

Looking at test results: no regression, all passed