Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.65.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi
Since the recent dpkg update, uscan reports now (here an example with
nfwatch):
[~/checkouts/git/mypackages/nfswatch]: uscan --report
dpkg: version ''4.99.11'' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number
Processing watchfile line for package nfswatch...
Newest version on remote site is 4.99.11, local version is 4.99.11
dpkg: version ''4.99.11'' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number
nfswatch: Newer version (4.99.11) available on remote site:
http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/nfswatch/nfswatch-4.99.11.tar.gz
(local version is 4.99.11)
Looking at uscan.pl, removing the quotes for the versionnumbers, the
problem dissapear.
Bests
Salvatore
-- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
--- ~/.devscripts ---
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.1 Debian package development tools
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii perl 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii at 3.1.12-1 Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii curl 7.21.0-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or
ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System
ii dctrl-tools 2.14 Command-line tools to process Debi
ii debian-keyring [d 2010.06.08 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii dput 0.9.6.1 Debian package upload tool
ii dupload 2.6.6 utility to upload Debian packages
ii equivs 2.0.8 Circumvent Debian package dependen
ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment
ii git [git-core] 1:1.7.1-1.1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii git-core 1:1.7.1-1.1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii heirloom-mailx [m 12.4-2 feature-rich BSD mail(1)
ii libauthen-sasl-pe 2.1500-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii libcrypt-ssleay-p 0.57-2 Support for https protocol in LWP
pn libjson-perl <none> (no description available)
ii libparse-debcontr 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.712-1 Perl implementation of a SOAP clie
ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.54-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii libwww-perl 5.836-1 Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar
ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.09-1 Perl module providing a fast, ligh
ii lintian 2.4.3 Debian package checker
ii lsb-release 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base version report
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii man-db 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager
ii openssh-client [s 1:5.5p1-4 secure shell (SSH) client, for sec
ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original
ii patchutils 0.3.1-2 Utilities to work with patches
ii sensible-utils 0.0.4 Utilities for sensible alternative
ii strace 4.5.20-2 A system call tracer
ii subversion 1.6.12dfsg-1 Advanced version control system
ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files
ii wdiff 0.6.3-1 Compares two files word by word
ii wget 1.12-2 retrieves files from the web
pn www-browser <none> (no description available)
ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100713-1 XZ-format compression utilities
Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii build-essential 11.5 Informational list of build-essent
pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available)
pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available)
pn gnuplot <none> (no description available)
pn libfile-desktopentry-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> (no description available)
pn mutt <none> (no description available)
ii svn-buildpackage 0.8.1 helper programs to maintain Debian
pn w3m <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
diff -urN devscripts-2.10.65.1.orig//scripts/uscan.pl devscripts-2.10.65.1/scripts/uscan.pl
--- devscripts-2.10.65.1.orig//scripts/uscan.pl 2010-07-14 02:10:24.000000000 +0200
+++ devscripts-2.10.65.1/scripts/uscan.pl 2010-07-30 09:25:06.505527790 +0200
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@
# Can't just use $lastversion eq $newversion, as then 0.01 and 0.1
# compare different, whereas they are treated as equal by dpkg
- if (system("dpkg", "--compare-versions", "'$mangled_lastversion'", "eq", "'$newversion'") == 0) {
+ if (system("dpkg", "--compare-versions", "$mangled_lastversion", "eq", "$newversion") == 0) {
if ($verbose or ($download == 0 and $report and ! $dehs)) {
print $pkg_report_header;
$pkg_report_header = '';
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@
# We use dpkg's rules to determine whether our current version
# is newer or older than the remote version.
if (!defined $download_version) {
- if (system("dpkg", "--compare-versions", "'$mangled_lastversion'", "gt", "'$newversion'") == 0) {
+ if (system("dpkg", "--compare-versions", "$mangled_lastversion", "gt", "$newversion") == 0) {
if ($verbose) {
print " => remote site does not even have current version\n";
} elsif ($dehs) {
