On Tuesday 01 May 2007 03:21, Bart Martens wrote: > However, some packages have no working debian/watch file, and then it is > not always easily seen whether there are newer upstream releases > available for these packages. I suggest to add/update debian/watch with > your next updates of your packages. Non-DD's are welcome to ask help > for that on [email protected] . Hint: test the > debian/watch file with "uscan --report-status".
I was wondering if there is a way to make uscan disregard what seem like newer versions, but are beta. The following illustrates the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.2$ uscan --report-status Processing watchfile line for package netcdf... Newest version on remote site is 4.0-beta1, local version is 3.6.2 netcdf: Newer version (4.0-beta1) available on remote site: ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4.0-beta1.tar.gz (local version is 3.6.2) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/netcdf/netcdf-3.6.2$ My watch file looks like: # See uscan(1) for format # Compulsory line, this is a version 3 file version=3 ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-([[:digit:]].*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate I would like it not to report 4.0-beta1 as a newer version, if possible. Does anyone have any suggestions? wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science
