Re: [PTS] Unneeded upstream version mangling in separate watch files

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 08:18:12PM +0200, Micha Lenk wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> some time ago the PTS was extended to include updated debian/watch files
> in the TODO list. And apparently a lot of these suggested updates were
> contributed by you. Thanks a lot for your efforts. I consider this
> really helpful!

Thanks. :-)

> 
> However, in the case of the packages maintained by me (libaqbanking,
> libgwenhywfar and libchipcard), all the suggested updates seem to be
> unneeded and thus misleading. The only relevant change seems to be the
> upstream version mangling so that the upstream version X.Y.Zbeta becomes
> X.Y.Z~beta after mangling. For all my packages I can assure (and prove
> by history) that the upstream author is incrementing the version number
> correctly in the next release after a alpha, beta or rc release. For
> this reason may I kindly ask you to remove the watch files for
> libaqbanking, libchipcard and libgwenhywfar from the collection of
> separate watch files?

You can remove them since I put the separate watch files in svn, but I'll
remove them now.  Note however that besides adding ~ before beta there are more
relevant changes :
- escaping the dots in the file extension (.tar.gz should be \.tar\.gz)
- more file extensions (not only gz but also bz2 and xz)
- less strict version pattern ([\d.]*[a-z]*\d* should be \d\S*)

Regards,

Bart Martens