Re: RFS: pgn-extract (adopting orphaned package)

[Vincent Legout <vincent@legout.info>]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:25:38PM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote :
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org> wrote:
> > Looking at it currently. However your watchfile seems to be
> > dysfunctional, otherwise the package looks fine to me.
> (...)
> > % uscan --report-status
> > Useless content call in void context at
> > /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm line 378
> > uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading FTP directory
> >  ftp://ftp.cs.kent.ac.uk/pub/djb/Extract/ failed: 400 FTP return code 000
> 
> Actually it works:
> 
> $ uscan --report-status
> Processing watchfile line for package pgn-extract...
> Newest version on remote site is 16-7, local version is 16.7
> pgn-extract: remote site does not even have current version
> 
> Maybe this problem is caused by using/missing the PASV mode of FTP.
> See the uscan manpage for PASV.
> 
> An improvement could be made on the watch file however (replace the
> dash by a dot):
> 
> version=3
> opts="uversionmangle=s/-/./" \
> ftp://ftp.cs.kent.ac.uk/pub/djb/Extract/pgn-extract-(.*)\.tgz
> 
> $ uscan --report-status
> Processing watchfile line for package pgn-extract...
> Newest version on remote site is 16.7, local version is 16.7
>  => Package is up to date

Thanks Christoph and Nelson.

I think Nelson is right, I've updated the watch file.

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pgn-extract/pgn-extract_16.7-1.dsc

Best Regards,
Vincent