Hi, On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > just a brief comment while seeing this change to the Debian wiki page. "Not > flexible enough" is very open-ended and calls for continuous updates of watch > files that work perfectly at the moment of their update. > > I think that all of this suggests that we would benefit of having this > complexity transferred to uscan: if the file looks like a compressed tar > archive, like 'foo.tar.gz', then look for other common compressions or formats > if no file is found.
+1 Or maybe allow usage of some predefined variables: - $ARCHIVE_EXT -> (?:zip|tgz|tbz|txz|(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz))) - $COMPRESSION_EXT -> (?:gz|bz2|xz) - $ANY_VERSION -> (?:\d\S*) Can you file a bug report against uscan ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

