Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>]

Hi!

Having recently tried to write a d/watch file for pypi, I'd suggest that the 
redirector service is a much better thing to recommend -- pypi.debian.net 
works very nicely.

Compare:

    http://pypi.debian.net/foo/foo-(.*).tar.gz

with the suggested

    opts="filenamemangle=s/\S+\/([^\/]+\.tar\.gz)#md5=[[:alnum:]]+$/$1/" \
        https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/ \
        \S+/pip-(\S+)\.tar\.gz#md5=[[:alnum:]]+

(no-one should have to deal with that sort of unmaintainable regex)

Note that is without adding the pgp signature finding options which for the 
first example is just

    opts=pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.asc/ 

and for the second is sufficiently horrid that I shall graciously decline.

cheers
Stuart


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