Re: watch file mangling help

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Ross Gammon <ross@the-gammons.net> wrote:
> > Upstream have changed one of my package's versioning on the tarball
> > (http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/abcmidi.git).
> >
> > The last uploaded version was 20150908 and now there is an upstream 
> > tarball with the version "2015.10.08".
> >
> > The watch file was simple:
> > version=3
> > opts=uversionmangle=s/-//g \
> > http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html abcMIDI-(.*)\.zip
> >
> > But now a uscan --repack tells me that:
> > Newest version on remote site is 2015.10.08, local version is 20150908
> > => remote site does not even have current version
> >
> > I am not sure what I should be mangling here, uversionmangle, or 
> > dversionmangle, or both.

The upstream versioned was 2013-09-15, and you had uversionmangle rule 
to get rid of hyphens.

All you need to do is to update the uversionmangle rule so that it gets 
rid of dots instead.

* Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>, 2015-10-17, 12:19:
> Why are you keeping the old versioning scheme if upstream has changed 
> to a different scheme?

The scheme Debian currently uses is good enough.
And to change it, you'd have to add epoch. Nobody likes epochs.

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Jakub Wilk