On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Ross Gammon <[email protected]> wrote:


> Upstream have changed one of my package's versioning on the tarball
> (http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/abcmidi.git).
>
> The last uploaded version was 20150908 and now there is an upstream
> tarball with the version "2015.10.08".
>
> The watch file was simple:
> version=3
> opts=uversionmangle=s/-//g \
> http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html abcMIDI-(.*)\.zip
>
> But now a uscan --repack tells me that:
> Newest version on remote site is 2015.10.08, local version is 20150908
>  => remote site does not even have current version
>
> I am not sure what I should be mangling here, uversionmangle, or
> dversionmangle, or both.
>
> Before I just download the tarball manually and be done with it, I
> thought I would check if someone could help with a more elegant solution.
>
>
Why are you keeping the old versioning scheme if upstream has changed to a
different scheme? Will they change back?

At first sight, my choice would be to change epoch and adopt the new
versioning scheme :-?


-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
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