Package: devscripts Version: 2.16.8 Severity: normal
Hi With the following watch file for my rlinetd package # control file for the uscan(1) tool version=4 opts="pgpmode=next" http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30928 \ (?:.*)/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ debian opts="pgpmode=previous" http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30928 \ (?:.*)/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@SIGNATURE_EXT@ previous uscan --verbose shows this: [ stripped some output ] uscan info: Matching target for downloadurlmangle: http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3966/rlinetd-0.9.tar.gz uscan info: Upstream URL (downloadurlmangled): http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3966/rlinetd-0.9.tar.gz uscan info: Newest upstream tarball version selected for download (uversionmangled): 0.9 uscan info: Download filename (filenamemangled): rlinetd-0.9.tar.gz uscan info: Newest version of rlinetd on remote site is 0.9, local version is 0.9 uscan info: => Package is up to date for from http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3966/rlinetd-0.9.tar.gz uscan info: opts: pgpmode=previous uscan info: line: http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30928 (?:.*)/rlinetd[-_]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*)(?i)\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip)\.(?:asc|pgp|gpg|sig) previous uscan info: Parsing pgpmode=previous uscan info: line: http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30928 (?:.*)/rlinetd[-_]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*)(?i)\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip)\.(?:asc|pgp|gpg|sig) previous uscan info: Last orig.tar.* tarball version (from debian/changelog): uscan warn: Unable to set versionmode=prev for the line without opts=pgpmode=prev in debian/watch, skipping: http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30928 (?:.*)/rlinetd[-_]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*)(?i)\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip)\.(?:asc|pgp|gpg|sig) previous uscan info: Scan finished The `Unable to set versionmode=prev for the line without opts=pgpmode=prev' warning is really confusing, as it does not really says what is wrong, and what I as a user can do to get rid of it. Not to mention that it suggests replacing `pgpmode=previous' (taken from the man page) with `pgpmode=prev' in the watch file... It took me some time to discover that the warning really means that the locally downloaded version is just the same as the latest remote version... Regards, robert -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.18.10 ii libc6 2.24-3 ii perl 5.24.1~rc3-3 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 1.3.1 ii at 3.1.20-1 ii curl 7.50.1-1 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-2 ii debian-keyring 2016.09.04 ii dput 0.10.3 ii dupload 2.7.0 ii equivs 2.0.9+nmu1 ii fakeroot 1.21-2 ii file 1:5.28-4 ii gnupg 2.1.15-4 ii gnupg2 2.1.15-4 pn libdistro-info-perl <none> ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.06-2 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.20-1 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libwww-perl 6.15-1 ii licensecheck 3.0.24-1 ii lintian 2.5.48 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii patch 2.7.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii python3-debian 0.1.29 pn python3-magic <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 ii strace 4.13-0.1 ii unzip 6.0-20 ii wdiff 1.2.2-1+b1 ii wget 1.18-4 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: pn adequate <none> pn autopkgtest <none> pn bls-standalone <none> ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3 ii build-essential 12.2 pn check-all-the-things <none> pn cvs-buildpackage <none> pn devscripts-el <none> pn diffoscope <none> pn disorderfs <none> pn dose-extra <none> ii duck 0.10 ii faketime 0.9.6-7 ii gnuplot 5.0.4+dfsg1-3 ii gpgv 2.1.15-4 pn how-can-i-help <none> ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1 ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-1 ii libnet-smtp-ssl-perl 1.03-1 ii libterm-size-perl 0.207-1+b4 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.29-1+b2 ii mailutils [mailx] 1:2.99.99-1.1+b1 pn mozilla-devscripts <none> ii mutt 1.7.1-1 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.3p1-1 ii piuparts 0.72 pn ratt <none> pn reprotest <none> ii s-nail [mailx] 14.8.12-1 ii svn-buildpackage 0.8.6 ii w3m 0.5.3-31 -- no debconf information