Forwarding to debian-mentors as I forgot to earlier. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: RFS: java-comment-preprocessor/5.3.3 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:37:26 +0100 From: Daniel Lintott <daniel@serverb.co.uk> To: Eugene Zhukov <jevgeni.zh@gmail.com> CC: debian-java@lists.debian.org Hi Eugene, On 18/08/14 09:52, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > Hello, > > I packaged java-comment-preprocessor, which is a dependency for > Saxon-HE 9.5.1.1. > The ITP is 757093 (it also has a link to repo). > > The package is otherwise ready to be uploaded to NEW, but I need help > with d/watch. > I sent email about it to debian-java [1], but no response. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2014/07/msg00036.html Quoted from [1] above: > I have d/watch which looks like: > version=3 > https://code.google.com/p/java-comment-preprocessor/source/list?name=5.3.3 > (.+)\.tar\.gz > This won't work anyway... as it will always retrieve 5.3.3, which defeats the object of debian/watch which is to show when a new upstream release is available. > When I run uscan I get: > [...] > https://java-comment-preprocessor.googlecode.com/archive/5.3.3.tar.gz > failed: 500 Can't connect to > java-comment-preprocessor.googlecode.com:443 > > However wget https://java-comment-preprocessor.googlecode.com/archive/5.3.3.tar.gz > works just fine. > What do I miss? The problem is https://java-comment-preprocessor.googlecode.com/archive doesn't actually exist, it's obviously being silently redirected in the background... and I can see no way to get a list of tags from a Google code project that uses mercurial. Looking at [2] they suggest using the downloads, which upstream have sort of used... but haven't made a release for 5.3.3 [3]. My suggestion would be to contact upstream and see if they are prepared to make a source package available via the download mechanism. Hope that helps, Daniel [2] https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch#Google_Code [3] https://code.google.com/p/java-comment-preprocessor/downloads/list?can=1
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