I think you should provide some options ("opts=..."): for instance, a component name should be provided for the two last parts. You can look at the manpage of uscan, it provides some examples of watch files for multiple upstream tarballs. As you are doing some repack, I guess you will add some suffix to the version number (like "+dfsg"), and to do so you should need to provide the "oversionmangle=..." option for the first tarball. Examples are shown in uscan's manpage.I recently packaged libaparapi-java, which is not yet in Debian but which you can get from its Salsa repository https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libaparapi-java Running "uscan --verbose" will allow you to get three tarballs : a main one and two components.
thanks Pierre for the comments and sample project, very helpful!
after reading your watch file and uscan's manual page more
carefully, I was able to download all 3 components using the below
watch file
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-octave-team/octave-iso2mesh/-/blob/master/debian/watch
after running uscan --verbose, a bunch of files/folders
were created in the above directory, see
drwxrwxr-x 5 fangq fangq 4096
Jun 25 22:03 octave-iso2mesh-1.9.5+dfsg1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fangq fangq 409 Jun 25 22:03
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.5+dfsg1-0ubuntu1.dsc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fangq fangq 5500 Jun 25 22:03
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.5+dfsg1-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fangq fangq 20 Jun 25 22:03
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.5+dfsg1.orig-meshfix.tar.gz ->
meshfix-1.2.2.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fangq fangq 2092675 Jun 25 22:03
meshfix-1.2.2.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fangq fangq 135 Jun 25 22:03
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.5+dfsg1.orig.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fangq fangq 5500 Jun 25 22:03
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.1-1.debian.tar.xz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fangq fangq 15 Jun 25 22:03
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.5+dfsg1.orig-cork.tar.gz ->
cork-0.9.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fangq fangq 292728 Jun 25 22:03
cork-0.9.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fangq fangq 941881 Jun 25 22:03
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.1.orig.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fangq fangq 28793215 Jun 25 22:03
iso2mesh-1.9.5.tar.gz
the final merged source folder, however, only contains the source codes of the two components, but not from the main package, see
$~/space/git/Temp/pkg$ ls -lt
octave-iso2mesh-1.9.5+dfsg1
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 4 fangq fangq 4096 Jun 25 22:03 debian
drwxrwxr-x 7 fangq fangq 4096 Jun 20 12:44 meshfix
drwxrwxr-x 5 fangq fangq 4096 Oct 1 2019 cork
I am not sure if it is related, but i have to change my
debian/changelog version to a lower version number (1.9.1) in
order to let uscan download the new release (1.9.5). however, both
.tar.xz files are empty (except the debian/ folder)
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.1-1.debian.tar.xz
octave-iso2mesh_1.9.5+dfsg1-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz
but the octave-iso2mesh_1.9.1.orig.tar.gz file is correctly repacked and contains all needed files.
I am wondering if anyone notice something wrong in repack or watch script? my repack file was slightly modified from https://wiki.debian.org/BenFinney/software/repack
another minor thing is the "-0ubuntu1"
suffix. I am testing the packaging in a Ubuntu 18.04 box, is there
a way to remove that?
my packaging files are committed at https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-octave-team/octave-iso2mesh/
much appreciated!
Qianqian