Re: watch-file syntax help

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Daniel Martí
<danielmarti.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mentors,
>
> I'm having some trouble at creating a watch file for the packace "preload".
>
> The upstream tarballs are found as follows:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload/files/preload/0.6.4/preload-0.6.4.tar.gz
>
> The problem lies where its parent folder changes at every release. Would
> anyone know how to make that work with debian/watch?

You can use qa.debian.org's SourceForge redirector like so:

      http://sf.net/<project>/<tar-name>-(.+)\.tar\.gz

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