Re: debian/watch:

[twb@cybersource.com.au (Trent W. Buck)]

Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> writes:

> doesn’t uscan rename the file anyways to the proper
> debian-sourcepackagename_version.orig.tar.gz name? At least it does it
> with --download, I think.

Here, it makes a symlink.  uscan claims this is the default behaviour.

    $ darcs get http://darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell/darcs debian --quiet
    $ uscan --download-current-version
    with-temp-dir: entering directory `/tmp/with-temp-dir.bCSchw'
    darcs: Version (2.3.0) available on remote site:
      http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/darcs/2.3.0/darcs-2.3.0.tar.gz
      (local version is 2.3.0)
    darcs: Successfully downloaded updated package 2.3.0.tar.gz
        and symlinked darcs_2.3.0.orig.tar.gz to it
    $ ls -l ../*.gz
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 twb cyber 1155822 Jan  5 13:22 ../2.3.0.tar.gz
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 twb cyber      12 Jan  5 13:22 ../darcs_2.3.0.orig.tar.gz -> 2.3.0.tar.gz
    with-temp-dir: leaving directory `/tmp/with-temp-dir.bCSchw'

Maybe you have --no-symlink in your ~/.devscripts ?