Re: debian/watch: How to watch version tags and what to capture?

[<c.buhtz@posteo.jp>]

Might it just be that "uscan" doesn't run every day on the Debian
servers? :)

I tried to reproduce it on my local machine. But there the new version
is recognized without problems.


$ uscan --verbose
uscan info: uscan (version 2.21.3+deb11u1) See uscan(1) for help
uscan info: Scan watch files in .
uscan info: Check debian/watch and debian/changelog in .
uscan info: package="backintime" version="1.3.3-4" (as seen in debian/changelog)
uscan info: package="backintime" version="1.3.3" (no epoch/revision)
uscan info: ./debian/changelog sets package="backintime" version="1.3.3"
uscan info: Process watch file at: debian/watch
    package = backintime
    version = 1.3.3
    pkg_dir = .
uscan info: Last orig.tar.* tarball version (from debian/changelog): 1.3.3
uscan info: Last orig.tar.* tarball version (dversionmangled): 1.3.3
uscan info: Requesting URL:
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/tags
uscan info: Matching pattern:
   (?:(?:https://github.com)?\/bit\-team\/backintime\/)?.*/v?(\d.*)(?i)(?:\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip|tgz|tbz|txz))
uscan info: Found the following matching hrefs on the web page (newest first):
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.tar.gz (1.4.0) index=1.4.0-1 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.tar.gz (1.4.0) index=1.4.0-1 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.zip (1.4.0) index=1.4.0-0 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.zip (1.4.0) index=1.4.0-0 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.3.tar.gz (1.3.3) index=1.3.3-1 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.3.tar.gz (1.3.3) index=1.3.3-1 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.3.zip (1.3.3) index=1.3.3-0 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.3.zip (1.3.3) index=1.3.3-0 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.2.tar.gz (1.3.2) index=1.3.2-1 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.2.tar.gz (1.3.2) index=1.3.2-1 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.2.zip (1.3.2) index=1.3.2-0 
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.2.zip (1.3.2) index=1.3.2-0 
   [SNIPPED]

uscan info: Looking at $base = https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/tags with
    $filepattern = .*/v?(\d.*)(?i)(?:\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip|tgz|tbz|txz)) found
    $newfile     = https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.tar.gz
    $newversion  = 1.4.0
    $lastversion = 1.3.3
uscan info: Matching target for downloadurlmangle: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Upstream URL(+tag) to download is identified as    https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Filename (filenamemangled) for downloaded file: v1.4.0.tar.gz
uscan: Newest version of backintime on remote site is 1.4.0, local version is 1.3.3
uscan:  => Newer package available from:
        => https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Downloading upstream package: v1.4.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Requesting URL:
   https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Successfully downloaded package: v1.4.0.tar.gz