Re: Help with watch file -- pre-release upstream versions

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Subject: Re: Help with watch file -- pre-release upstream versions
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:02:31 -0800
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 47AFA3AD.5020905@mail.3d.hu> ("Székelyi Szabolcs"'s message of "Mon\, 11 Feb 2008 02\:23\:57 +0100")
References: <[🔎] 47AFA3AD.5020905@mail.3d.hu>

Székelyi Szabolcs <cc@mail.3d.hu> writes:

> What's the usual way of handling "preX" upstream version numbers in
> watch files? I'm having trouble because uscan considers 1.0pre3 newer
> than 1.0.

opts=uversionmangle=s/pre/~pre/

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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