watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Martí
Dear Mentors, I'm having some trouble at creating a watch file for the packace preload. The upstream tarballs are found as follows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload/files/preload/0.6.4/preload-0.6.4.tar.gz The problem lies where its parent folder changes at every release. Would anyone

Re: watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Daniel Martí danielmarti.deb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mentors, I'm having some trouble at creating a watch file for the packace preload. The upstream tarballs are found as follows:

Re: watch-file syntax help

2012-02-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 08:37:58PM +0100, Daniel Martí a écrit : I'm having some trouble at creating a watch file for the packace preload. The upstream tarballs are found as follows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload/files/preload/0.6.4/preload-0.6.4.tar.gz Dear Daniel, I have the

watch file syntax

2011-10-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Dear list (again :-)), thank you very much for helping so far -- I have now another problem: the upstream url is something like http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs-1.10-4.7.tar.gz, but the URL http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/ just gives some errors, preventing the watch file from working

Re: watch file syntax

2011-10-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx writes: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#docs | Normally with a watch file, the URL at http://sf.net/gentoo is in my case, this is

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:00:31PM -0800, Ian Duggan wrote: And go for version 2.6.91 (which has just been uploaded) if you have any FTP sites; version 2.6.90 was broken for them. See uscan(1) in the new package for a description of the new watch file format. The new devscripts also

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:00:31PM -0800, Ian Duggan wrote: And go for version 2.6.91 (which has just been uploaded) if you have any FTP sites; version 2.6.90 was broken for them. See uscan(1) in the new package for a description of the new watch file format. The new devscripts also

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Ian Duggan
And go for version 2.6.91 (which has just been uploaded) if you have any FTP sites; version 2.6.90 was broken for them. See uscan(1) in the new package for a description of the new watch file format. The new devscripts also features a funky new config file. It was probably my longest

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:00:31PM -0800, Ian Duggan wrote: I looked on the mirrors and the latest I can find is 2.6.90. Where would I look to find 2.6.91? I looked in the /pool/d/devscripts/ dir on mirrors.kernel.org/debian and http.us.debian.org. At the time Julian posted, it was available

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Ari Pollak
My uscan man page only uses one backslash.. On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:01:32PM -0800, Ian Duggan wrote: When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Duggan wrote: When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is preferred/correct? Install the uscan from unstable, and do not escape backslashes. The

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:50:33AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Ian Duggan wrote: When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is preferred/correct?

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Ian Duggan
And go for version 2.6.91 (which has just been uploaded) if you have any FTP sites; version 2.6.90 was broken for them. See uscan(1) in the new package for a description of the new watch file format. The new devscripts also features a funky new config file. It was probably my longest

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:00:31PM -0800, Ian Duggan wrote: I looked on the mirrors and the latest I can find is 2.6.90. Where would I look to find 2.6.91? I looked in the /pool/d/devscripts/ dir on mirrors.kernel.org/debian and http.us.debian.org. At the time Julian posted, it was available

watch file syntax

2002-03-13 Thread Ian Duggan
When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is preferred/correct? Where do I ask to get the incorrect version updated? man uscan: -- # Site

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-13 Thread Ari Pollak
My uscan man page only uses one backslash.. On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:01:32PM -0800, Ian Duggan wrote: When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Duggan wrote: When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is preferred/correct? Install the uscan from unstable, and do not escape backslashes.

watch file syntax

2002-03-13 Thread Ian Duggan
When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is preferred/correct? Where do I ask to get the incorrect version updated? man uscan: -- # Site