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Re: uscan downloads wrong source tarball from Github



On Sun, 2025-10-19 at 16:12 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 10:53 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 12:39:38PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > (Please CC me when replying as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel)
> > 
> > ack.
> >  
> > > I followed the guide from the Debian wiki [2] and used the following options and URLs
> > > for debian/watch:
> >  
> > there has been quite some development on uscan recently, so which version
> > of devscripts have you been using?
> 
> Sorry for the very late reply! I have now installed devscripts from trixie-backports
> and downloading the desired upstream tarball works, the orig.tar.xz symlink that is
> created contains the version number twice.
[...]
> https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/releases/download/v?@ANY_VERSION@/fs-uae-?@ANY_VERSION@.tar.xz
[...]
> glaubitz@z6:..debian/fs-uae-debian> ls -l ../fs-uae*3.2.35*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 glaubitz glaubitz      20 Oct 19 16:09 ../fs-uae_3.2.35.3.2.35.orig.tar.xz -> fs-uae-3.2.35.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 glaubitz glaubitz 3620972 Oct 19 16:09 ../fs-uae-3.2.35.tar.xz
> glaubitz@z6:..debian/fs-uae-debian> 
> 
> Anyone has any idea how to address the messed up version number?

Quoting watch-file-4(5):

> If there are multiple matching strings of capturing patterns in
> matching-pattern, they are all concatenated with .  (period) to form
> the candidate upstream version.  Make sure to use the non-capturing
> regex such as (?:[\d\.]+?) instead for the variable text matching part
> unrelated to the version.

I.e. do not use @ANY_VERSION@ twice.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.

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