Re: uscan downloads wrong source tarball from Github

[Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

On 9/21/25 6:07 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> Am 21. September 2025 14:05:16 MESZ schrieb Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>:
> > Yes, logging into a sid chroot on trixie systems is too much effort to quickly test the watch file version.
> >
> > If you want people to use version 5, make it available in trixie via backports.
>
> as a regular workflow: sure.

In our regular workflows we already get peer-pressured into using version 5 by lintian.

Which we need to override to keep our packages lintian clean as long as version 5 is not supported by devscripts on trixie systems.

> however, I take the original suggestion as: could you please test our latest and greatest release of "uscan", to see whether the problem has been fixed already?
> which I think is a perfectly normal approach in software development.
>
> once it is established that version 5 "does the right thing",  there's one more incentive to upload it to backports.

That doesn't help users on trixie which can't have a working watch file right now.

Kind Regards,

Bas