Re: debian/watch

[Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz>]

> Od: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>

> > Having watch file like this:
> > version=3
> >
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ll-plugins/lv2-c++-tools-(.*)\.tar\.bz2
> >
> > Can anybody advice why uscan cannot reach this source?
>
> Probably because the source specification is interpreted as a regex. As
> well as the period ‘.’ characters, special characters like ‘+’ need to
> be quoted.
>
> Also, in order to reduce the surprises, I prefer not to allow a
> zero-length version string with ‘.+’. Instead it's better to have the
> version part of the string specified as ‘.+’ so it's at least one
> character long.
>
>
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ll-plugins/lv2-c\+\+-tools-(.+)\.tar\.bz2

Thank you for explanation ... It works

best regards

mira