Package: devscripts Version: 2.19.5+deb10u1 Severity: normal In the case where a .tar url does not really point to a tarfile, uscan does report the problem, but only after a printf error.
Additionally, it does not keep the downloaded file, which forces manual re-download to check what really happenned. yann@home:jam-2.6$ uscan uscan: Newest version of jam on remote site is 2.6.1, local version is 2.6 uscan: => Newer package available from https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce_software-jam/files/main/jam-2.6.1.tar Missing argument in sprintf at /usr/share/perl5/Devscripts/MkOrigtargz.pm line 575. tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors uscan: error: tar --list --auto-compress --file ../jam_2.6.1.orig.tar. subprocess returned exit status 2 yann@home:jam-2.6$ file jam-2.6.1.tar jam-2.6.1.tar: cannot open `jam-2.6.1.tar' (No such file or directory) yann@home:jam-2.6$ wget https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce_software-jam/files/main/jam-2.6.1.tar --2019-09-15 13:26:56-- https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce_software-jam/files/main/jam-2.6.1.tar Resolving swarm.workshop.perforce.com (swarm.workshop.perforce.com)... 107.1.244.153 Connecting to swarm.workshop.perforce.com (swarm.workshop.perforce.com)|107.1.244.153|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘jam-2.6.1.tar’ jam-2.6.1.tar [ <=> ] 8.72K --.-KB/s in 0.001s 2019-09-15 13:26:57 (16.9 MB/s) - ‘jam-2.6.1.tar’ saved [8932] yann@home:jam-2.6$ file jam-2.6.1.tar jam-2.6.1.tar: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBSIGN_KEYID=74AF05DDD92027F5F0C3CDD50D85F29625A3F9FD DGET_UNPACK=no DEBDIFF_SHOW_MOVED=yes -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii fakeroot 1.23-1 ii file 1:5.35-4 ii gnupg 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii gnupg2 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii gpgv 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.004-1 ii libfile-which-perl 1.23-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2 ii libwww-perl 6.36-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-6 ii python3 3.7.3-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 ii wdiff 1.2.2-2+b1 Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 1.8.2 ii at 3.1.23-1 ii curl 7.64.0-4 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-3 ii debian-keyring 2019.02.25 ii dput 1.0.3 ii equivs 2.2.0 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.21 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1 ii libgit-wrapper-perl 0.048-1 ii libgitlab-api-v4-perl 0.16-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.07-2 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.27-1 ii libstring-shellquote-perl 1.04-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii licensecheck 3.0.31-3 ii lintian 2.15.0 ii man-db 2.8.5-2 ii patch 2.7.6-3+deb10u1 ii python3-apt 1.8.4 ii python3-debian 0.1.35 ii python3-magic 2:0.4.15-2 ii python3-requests 2.21.0-1 ii python3-unidiff 0.5.4-1 ii python3-xdg 0.25-5 ii strace 4.26-0.2 ii unzip 6.0-23+deb10u1 ii wget 1.20.1-1.1 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii adequate 0.15.2 ii autopkgtest 5.10 pn bls-standalone <none> ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-1 ii build-essential 12.6 pn check-all-the-things <none> pn cvs-buildpackage <none> ii debhelper 12.1.1 ii devscripts-el 40.3 ii diffoscope 113 pn disorderfs <none> pn dose-extra <none> pn duck <none> pn faketime <none> ii gnuplot 5.2.6+dfsg1-1+deb10u1 ii gnuplot-qt [gnuplot] 5.2.6+dfsg1-1+deb10u1 ii how-can-i-help 16 ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1 pn libdbd-pg-perl <none> ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-1 pn libnet-smtps-perl <none> pn libterm-size-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.31-1+b1 ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.5-3 pn mozilla-devscripts <none> ii mutt 1.10.1-2.1 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.9p1-10 pn piuparts <none> pn postgresql-client <none> ii quilt 0.65-3 pn ratt <none> pn reprotest <none> pn svn-buildpackage <none> ii w3m 0.5.3-37 -- no debconf information