Re: Question concerning watch file checks in PTS

[Simon Kainz <simon@familiekainz.at>]

Am 2013-01-28 21:55, schrieb Bart Martens:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:40:22PM +0100, Simon Kainz wrote:
> > Trying to fix some watch files, i got a bit confused:
> > Looking at http://qa.debian.org/watch/uscan-errors.txt (dated
> > 2012-01-28, as i can see here: http://qa.debian.org/watch/ ), i see
> > e.g the following line:
> > apgdiff 2.4-1 : failed: 500 .*Bad hostname
> > So i do an
> > apt-get source to get the package. Then i cd into the newly created
> > dir and do the following:
> > skainz@zidd-104:~/tmp/apgdiff-1.4$ uscan --no-download -verbose
> > Newest version on remote site is 2.3, local version is 1.4
> >  => Newer version available from
> >     http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/apgdiff/apgdiff-2.3-src.zip
> > So the watchfile seems to be ok, but still the watch file checks
> > tell me 500 bad hostname. So which file does the automated check
> > process then? Or should i get the watchfile from somewhere else?
>
> Temporary network problems.  I just ran uscan for this watch file on 
> quantz,
> and it currently still produces "bad hostname".  Also, running "host
> apgdiff.startnet.biz" produces "Host apgdiff.startnet.biz not found:
> 3(NXDOMAIN)".  Same on my laptop (different internet connection).  
> For some
> reason the host can be reached from where you are.  No idea why this 
> happens.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bart Martens

Hi!

Host apgdiff.startnet.biz also gives the same result. Question is: Why 
do you query apgdiff.startnet.biz? When i apt-get source the package, my 
watch files looks like this:

skainz@zidd-104:~/tmp/apgdiff-1.4/debian$ cat watch
version=3
http://sf.net/apgdiff/apgdiff-(.+)-src.zip
skainz@zidd-104:~/tmp/apgdiff-1.4/debian$

So maybe i get the wrong watchfile?

Regards,

Simon