Bug#501932: devscripts: [uscan] --download-version almost useless

2008-10-11 Thread James Westby
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.26 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid ubuntu-patch Hi, My use case for uscan --download-version is to programatically retrieve old versions of an upstream tarball. Currently this will give output like this:

Bug#501932: devscripts: [uscan] --download-version almost useless

2008-10-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 18:23 +0100, James Westby wrote: My use case for uscan --download-version is to programatically retrieve old versions of an upstream tarball. Currently this will give output like this: [...] Newest version on remote site is 0.81.5, local version is 0.82.0 = remote

Bug#501932: devscripts: [uscan] --download-version almost useless

2008-10-11 Thread James Westby
Hi Adam, Thanks for the quick response. On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 18:55 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: The original use case for --download-version involved uscan being invoked with --upstream-version 0; in that case, everything just works [tm]. I agree it would be useful if your use case worked