Re: [Debian Wiki] Mise à jour de « debian/watch » par PaulWise
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > just a brief comment while seeing this change to the Debian wiki page. "Not
> > flexible enough" is very open-ended and calls for continuous updates of watch
> > files that work perfectly at the moment of their update.
> >
> > I think that all of this suggests that we would benefit of having this
> > complexity transferred to uscan: if the file looks like a compressed tar
> > archive, like 'foo.tar.gz', then look for other common compressions or formats
> > if no file is found.
>
> +1
>
> Or maybe allow usage of some predefined variables:
> - $ARCHIVE_EXT -> (?:zip|tgz|tbz|txz|(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz)))
> - $COMPRESSION_EXT -> (?:gz|bz2|xz)
> - $ANY_VERSION -> (?:\d\S*)
>
> Can you file a bug report against uscan ?
All good ideas. I would however add a nuance around the "zip" part. On some
websites a .zip and a .tar.gz file are both available, and then uscan should
select the .tar.gz file. I mean, uscan should prefer a file extension of a
file that is usable for Debian packaging as-is.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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