Bug#418978: closed by Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> (Re: Bug#418978: devscripts: [uscan] Sourceforge redirector does not work - uses hard coded heanet.dl.* domain)

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:
>> >   version=3
>> >   # Debian QA redirector to find new files on sourceforge
>> >   http://sf.net/projects/pcmanfm/pcmanfm-(.*)\.tar\.gz
>> 
>> please note that the syntax is http://sf.net/pcmanfm/, this will be written to
>> http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/pcmanfm/
>
> Your watch file works here if I remove "projects/". As documented in
> uscan(1):
>
>        # If your package is located on sourceforge, use one of the following
>        # formats to automatically use the qa.debian.org redirector, avoiding
>        # SFʼs difficult mirror system.
>        http://sf.net/aa-project/aalib-(.*)\.tar\.gz

Right. Could you change this example to read:

         http://sf.net/aalib/aalib-(.*)\.tar\.gz
                      ======

This would lessend the effect of confusing it with "project/" path portion.

Jari