Re: debian/watch

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz> writes:

> 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

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