On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:02:40AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.8.14
> Severity: normal
> 
> It is my impression that current uscan program downloads the upstream
> package believing indicated web page information but it does not check
> the sanity of downloaded file contents after the download.
> 
> For some URL such as ones starting http://prdownloads.sf.net ,
> the download link sometimes return the original web page or similar (I
> confirmed this by "wget".)  This seems to be intentional action on the
> miror site when user do not pay for subscription fee for some link. [*]

Good idea.  See also bug #242884 (http://bugs.debian.org/242884),
where no particularly good resolution is reached regarding SF
websites.

   Julian


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