Bug#628066: /usr/bin/uscan: uscan suddenly giving error 404 for SF redirector

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:26:31AM +0530, Onkar Shinde a écrit :
> 
> onkar@iBook:~/programs/cdk-1.2.8$ uscan --verbose --report
> -- Scanning for watchfiles in .
> -- Found watchfile in ./debian
> -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
>    http://sf.net/cdk/ cdk-(1\.[2468]\.[\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
> uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
>   http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/cdk/ failed: 404 File Not Found
> -- Scan finished

Dear Onkar and everybody,

Actually, it is becomming possible to interrogate sourceforge.net without the
help of the redirector. For instance,

  http://sf.net/bio-bwa/bwa-([\d\.]+[\da-f]*)\.tar\.bz2

may be replaced by:

opts=downloadurlmangle=s|/download|| \
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bio-bwa/files/ \
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bio-bwa/files/bwa-([\d\.]+[\da-f]*)\.tar\.bz2/download

If this proves stable, it may be render the redirector unnecessary.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan