Uscan with gitlab and user provided tarball
Hi,
the upstream of one of my packages recently moved from sourceforge to
Gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/aroffringa/wsclean
He uses git submodules, and this makes the automatically created tarball
incomplete. For my convenience, he created (and hopefully will continue
so) a manual asset, which is linked on the Releases page
https://gitlab.com/aroffringa/wsclean/-/releases/
Unfortunately, the file URL does not have a canonical name, as seen on
the HTML snippet:
<a href="https://gitlab.com/aroffringa/wsclean/-/package_files/15813079/download"
class="…">
<svg …>…</svg>
wsclean-v3.0.tar.bz2
</a>
This HTML is also generated by a script, so not directly downloadable.
Since Gitlab is one of the standard providers, there may be a good
solution to get the correct tarball? Or is there a better way for
upstream to provide a complete tarball than the one chosen here?
Best regards
Ole
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