Re: Help fixing or debugging debian/watch

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

On 24/10/2023 23.52, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> New user of debian/watch and I cannot see why it reports failure in a
> qa.debian.org but I cannot reproduce it.

>   status: error
>   warnings: In debian/watch no matching files for watch line https://github.com/kyan001/ping3/tags https://github.com/kyan001/ping3/archive/refs/tags/(?:[-_]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*))(?i)(?:\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|tar\.zstd?|zip|tgz|tbz|txz))

The expansion of @ANY_VERSION@ does not contain 'v?' in the older uscan 
version running on the server, while it does on the newer uscan you used 
locally:

>uscan info: Matching pattern:
> 
(?:(?:https://github.com)?\/kyan001\/ping3\/)?https://github.com/kyan001/ping3/archive/refs/tags/(?:[-_]?v?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*))(?i)(?:\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|tar\.zstd?|zip|tgz|tbz|txz))

> carles@pinux:[debian/unstable]~/git/debian/python-ping3$ cat debian/watch
> version=4
> https://github.com/kyan001/ping3/tags \
>    https://github.com/kyan001/ping3/archive/refs/tags/@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@

BTW, the uscan manpage suggests this format for github (filenamemangle 
omitted to match your example):

version=4
https://github.com/<user>/<project>/tags \
  (?:.*?/)?v?@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@

i.e. wildcards for the protocol, host and path parts and 'v?' version prefix

Andreas