Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.69+squeeze1 Severity: wishlist The upstream developer of the scheme9 package silently dumps new versions of the upstream tarball, with the same name, in a specified location.
http://t3x.org/s9fes.tgz The version can be determined in one of two ways. Either unpack the tarball, find a specific line, and parse it: $ tar --to-stdout --extract --file ../scheme9_2011.02.18.orig.tar.gz s9/s9.c | egrep '^[#]define +VERSION' #define VERSION "2010-11-13" Or use the timestamp from the headers: $ curl --silent --remote-time --remote-name http://t3x.org/s9fes.tgz $ ls -l s9fes.tgz -rw-rw-r-- 1 barak barak 483351 Feb 18 07:11 s9fes.tgz $ mv s9fes.tgz scheme9_$(stat --format '%y' s9fes.tgz | awk '{print $1}' | tr - .).orig.tar.gz $ ls -l scheme9_2011.02.18.orig.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 barak barak 483351 Feb 18 07:11 scheme9_2011.02.18.orig.tar.gz Ideally, uscan would have some way to support each of these. (And yes, I do have a strong stomach; why do you ask?) --Barak. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
