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Bug#752384: HEAnet sourceforge mirror is outdated



On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 12:15 +0100, Daniel Lintott wrote:

> I don't know whether this has been found/investigated before but the
> appears to be an RSS feed for each project containing the file downloads.
> 
> So for my package VPCS, the RSS feed is at:
> 	https://sourceforge.net/projects/vpcs/rss

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

> It would seem this is a viable alternative as the links provided map to
> the SF mirror selector, so should always return a mirror with the
> correct files present.

That isn't quite what we need for uscan but could be a good start, we
would still need to process the RSS into HTML though.

I have been in contact with the SourceForge people and they are in the
evaluation process of creating a permanent fix for us:

http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/8064/

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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