2010/9/21 Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:42 PM, James Vega <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2010/9/21 Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>:
>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:52 PM, James Vega <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 2010/9/21 Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>:
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:33 PM, James Vega <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 2010/9/21 Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>> $ uscan --verbose --rename
>>>>>>> - -- Scanning for watchfiles in .
>>>>>>> - -- Found watchfile in ./debian
>>>>>>> - -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
>>>>>>>   http://sf.net/openoffice-lv/lv_LV(.*)\.zip   debian uupdate
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> Newest version on remote site is -0.9.3, local version is 0.9.1
>>>>>>>  => remote site does not even have current version
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ dpkg --compare-versions -- '-0.9.3' gt '0.9.1' || echo "no"
>>>>>> no
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The version regex in your watch file is capturing too much (the leading
>>>>>> '-').  Changing "http://sf.net/openoffice-lv/lv_LV(.*)\.zip" to
>>>>>> "http://sf.net/openoffice-lv/lv_LV-+([0-9.]+)\.zip" will fix it.  Adjust
>>>>>> accordingly if you also want to match versions like 0.5.rc2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why was the current recipe working fine until now, then? This is the
>>>>> very first time that it barfs. Something must have changed in the way
>>>>> uupdate or uscan work since we pushed 0.9.1.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually, your watch file changed.  In 0.9.1, you were using
>>>> "http://sf.net/openoffice-lv/lv_LV-(.*)\.zip" so the '-' was counted as
>>>> part of the version string.
>>>
>>> This only failed now, too. It reported 0.6.5 as the newest version.
>>
>> No, it reported "-0.6.5" as the newest version and it's doing that
>> because the regex used in 0.9.1's watch file isn't correct either.
>>
>> Upstream has a tarball named "lv_LV--0.6.5.zip" (notice the two
>> hyphens).  As I mentioned earlier, you should be using
>> "http://sf.net/openoffice-lv/lv_LV-+([0-9.]+)\.zip" (or with a slight
>> change to the "[0-9.]" portion to match pre-releases) in the watch file.
>> That will actually handle the file listing appropriately.
>
> As I recall, I copied that regex recipe from uscan's man page. This
> tells me that it needs updating too.

The example is:

  http://sf.net/audacity/audacity-src-(.+)\.tar\.gz

but it's just an example.  What is actually required depends on how your
upstream decides to version their releases.  Using a format similar to
the example would have worked fine if your upstream hadn't made a
release that has two '-' before the actual version string.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>




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