Hi Aaron, On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 09:39:42AM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Eriberto <eribe...@eriberto.pro.br> writes: > > > There are three problems here. > > Thanks for taking a look!
You are welcome. :-) > > 1. The current FTP address is > > ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/, not > > ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old. > > Hm? Either name is valid, and I'd say the variant with .nlm is > preferred: Doesn't matter anyway - see below. > $ dig @ns.nih.gov ftp.ncbi.nih.gov CNAME > ftp.ncbi.nih.gov. 86400 IN CNAME ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. > > > 2. Now, this FTP site only accepts passive mode. > > That shouldn't be relevant if we're switching to http(s) anyway. > > > 3. The FTP scan via uscan seems accept files only (not directory > > names). However, this site has http too. > > Good point. Better yet, it has https. Yes - but at least we do now have a working watch file that enabled me downloading the new upstream source. As I wrote in another mail[1] I failed injecting it into the packaging Git. I admit I'd really appreciate if you could take over from the current state of the Git repository since I consider you way more competent than me for the job. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2016/12/msg00020.html -- http://fam-tille.de
