Re: Need help with a watch file

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've got some troubles creating a working watch file for kdesvn.
> Upstream uses version numbered subdirectories.
>
> http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/
>
> Currently the latest version is
> http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/0.14.x/kdesvn-0.14.0.tar.bz2
>
> I tried to use a match for the sub directory, as the uscan man page
> claims that this is supported:
> http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/(.)/kdesvn-(.*).tar.bz2

Don't you mean 
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/(.*)/kdesvn-(.*).tar.bz2 
instead?

> Unfortunately this fails.

Note the extra '*' in my version.  Does that fix things?

> Has anyone an idea how I can construct a valid watch file?
> An alternative html page would be
> http://kdesvn.alwins-world.de/wiki/DownLoads
> linking to the latest release. Unfortunately the CMS creates dumb links
> like http://kdesvn.alwins-world.de/downloads/16.

What a drag.

-- Asheesh.

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