I don't know how/who could better coordinate that.
Maybe removing some sections in the Debian Wiki as there is already a link to uscan(1)?
Regards,
Patrice
On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:33:01 -0500 Daniel Lewart <lewart3@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.23.4
> Severity: minor
>
> Devscripts Maintainers,
>
> The uscan(1) github.com example is:
> version=4
> opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?@ANY_VERSION@(@ARCHIVE_EXT@)%@PACKAGE@-$1$2%" \
> https://github.com/<user>/<project>/tags \
> (?:.*?/)?v?@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@
>
> The beginning of the pattern, which will be discarded, is:
> (?:.*?)?v?
> It should be simplified to:
> .*?
> or made to correspond to the matching pattern:
> (?:.*?/)?v?
>
> Also, the debian/watch wiki:
> https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch
> seems to be not as good as uscan(1), which is confusing.
>
> Of course, the best solution would be the following:
> #1010604 Support commonly used providers like github.com and gitlab.com
> within watch file:
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1010604
>
> Thank you!
> Daniel Lewart
> Urbana, Illinois
>
>