Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal The uscan download from sourceforge doesn't download what you expect for boost. The reason is that the link provided by the reflector page [1] is incorrect: it leads to a "snapshot" url [2]. The correct URL is [3].
Paul Wise indicated [4] that the reflector is a proxy for the RSS feed and indeed both URLs are present: <link>https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/snapshots/master/boost_1_62_0.tar.bz2/download</link> <link>https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.62.0/boost_1_62_0.tar.bz2/download</link> My suggestion is that the ones with "snapshots" in the path are simply filtered out from list displayed by the reflector as these are not release files. [1] https://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/boost/ [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/snapshots/master/boost_1_62_0.tar.bz2/download [3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.62.0/boost_1_62_0.tar.bz2/download [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00292.html -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)