Bug#218656: qa.debian.org: pts and "new version found"
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:25:46AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Its nice that pts now has a "A new upstream version was found:"
> function. But that one is a little bit broken.
> For example look at the epiphany package at the moment. It has Version
> 0.5.1-1 in the archive but pts says
> A new upstream version was found:
> (bin-0.5.1). http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/epiphany/epiphany-bin-0.5.1.tar.gz
>
> Looks like the filter should be adjusted. Either to ignore common bin-
> doc- or similar things or to just look at the version number ignoring
> whatever else is in the name.
I think the PTS is using the debian/watch files if available. So the
problem here may be a bad pcre in the watch file to specify the version.
Another problem is that this seems not to be updated very regularly.
For example <http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/arj.html>
regards,
guillem
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