Bug#792025: [uscan] Doesn't strip terminal download.html, fails fetching .../download.html/download/...

2015-07-10 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Package: devscripts: Version: 2.15.5 The below seemingly-standard debian/watch file fails. $ cat debian/watch version=3 https://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html \

Bug#792025: [uscan] Doesn't strip terminal download.html, fails fetching .../download.html/download/...

2015-07-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 12:05 +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: $ cat debian/watch version=3 https://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html \ .*/fossil-src-(\d*\.\d*)\.(?:zip|tgz|tbz|txz|(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz))) [...] Note the URL it tries to fetch is

Bug#792025: [uscan] Doesn't strip terminal download.html, fails fetching .../download.html/download/...

2015-07-10 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Thanks for the quick diagnosis. I will report this error in their page to upstream, and no doubt they will fix it quickly. So it seems Chrome (and presumably other popular browsers although I didn't check) are in violation of spec and ignoring the given base href. As a matter of robustness,