Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

2015-04-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi! Having recently tried to write a d/watch file for pypi, I'd suggest that the redirector service is a much better thing to recommend -- pypi.debian.net works very nicely. Compare: http://pypi.debian.net/foo/foo-(.*).tar.gz with the suggested

Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

2015-04-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Stuart, Stuart Prescott wrote: Having recently tried to write a d/watch file for pypi, I'd suggest that the redirector service is a much better thing to recommend -- pypi.debian.net works very nicely. Thanks for that hint. I've updated the tag's description as follows:

Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

2015-04-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Axel, On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 20:33:08 Axel Beckert wrote: Thanks for that hint. I've updated the tag's description as follows: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=a3cb0264b3a1b a403145b249683d5e0bab8e7c52 I hope that's fine. If not: Send patches! ;-) Looks

Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

2015-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
On 25-Jan-2015, James McCoy wrote: Through a discussion on IRC, it came up that many of the Python Team maintained packages use http(s)://pypi.python.org/packages/source/... URLs, which aren't currently working. Turns out that's not a URL that should be relied upon Thanks, the reference to

Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

2015-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Attached is an updated patch which improves the comments and URLs for testing. -- \ “It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” | `\ —Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire | _o__)

Bug#776267: lintian: Add check for unsupported PyPI URL in debian/watch

2015-01-25 Thread James McCoy
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Through a discussion on IRC, it came up that many of the Python Team maintained packages use http(s)://pypi.python.org/packages/source/... URLs, which aren't currently working. Turns out that's not a URL that should be relied