Re: debian/watch: FTP with version encoded (only) in directory

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Ole Streicher wrote:

> How can I get this right?

With just the ftp site alone it can't work (see below), luckily for
you there is a github page:

http://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/~mbt/stilts/#install
https://github.com/Starlink/starjava/releases

So this monstrosity should work:

version=3
options="uversionmangle=s/\-/./,downloadurlmangle=s{.*/stilts-([\d\.\-]+)\.zip}{ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/stilts/v$1/stilts_src.zip}";
\
https://github.com/Starlink/starjava/releases .*/archive/stilts-([\d\.\-]+).zip

It won't work with the ftp site because uscan doesn't let the version
number be in the directory name and the downloadurlmangle workaround
doesn't work with ftp. I think both of these are probably things that
uscan needs to support. There may be bugs for them, please check and
if not, file new ones.

uscan info: line:
ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/stilts/v([\d\.\-]+)/stilts_src.zip
Use of uninitialized value $filepattern in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/bin/uscan line 2612, <WATCH> line 3.
uscan warn: Filename pattern missing version delimiters () without
filenamemangle
  in watch, skipping:
  ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/stilts/v([\d\.\-]+)/stilts_src.zip

uscan warn: downloadurlmangle option invalid for ftp sites,
  ignoring downloadurlmangle in watch:
  ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/stilts/v([\d\.\-]+)

-- 
bye,
pabs

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