Bug#418978: devscripts: [uscan] Sourceforge redirector does not work - uses hard coded heanet.dl.* domain

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

Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:22:39AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> Package: devscripts
>> Version: 2.10.2
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> Given this configuraton file:
>> 
>>   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/

Thanks, however this still gives 404.

>> SUGGESTION
>> 
>> If the intention is to use always heanet.dl.* address for sourceforge locations, this is not
>> bullet proof, because not all projects are distributed / mirrored in heanet. The redirector
>> could send a "HEAD" HTTP request to check if the URL exists and switch to another
>> redector as needed.
>
> this is a nice idea, are you sure every project isn't mirrored on heanet? I
> always see the link to heanet when downloading projects from sf.net

It looks heanet is only partial mirror. In this case pcmanfm is
available in mirrors:

    Brussels, Belgium
    Bern, Switzerland
    Lausanne, Switzerland
    Duesseldorf, Germany
    Paris, France
    Berlin, Germany
    Dublin, Ireland
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Kent, UK

Heanet (ireland?) is not listed here.

Jari