Re: [Package Fastaq] - uscan won't find upstream source - Regex in watch file not working as expected

[Jorge Sebastião Soares <j.s.soares@gmail.com>]

Hey Andreas,

I have swollen my tongue.

The watch file as it is works nicely with the original git project.

Thanks for sorting this out.

Best,

Jorge

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jorge Sebastião Soares <j.s.soares@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Andreas,

Sorry for PM.

Should have gone out to Debian. Gmail defaults...

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 11:01:33AM +0100, Jorge Sebastião Soares wrote:
> Source format 1.0 detected, adding exclude flags

Please use source format 3.0 (quilt) (if you do not have good reasons
not to use it).

I had forgot to copy this over from the package template.

Thanks for spotting it.

>  dpkg-source -i(?:^|/)\.git(attributes)?(?:$|/.*$) -I.git --before-build
> fastaq
> dpkg-source: error: source package name 'Fastaq' is illegal: character 'F'
> not allowed

Dpkg-source is just telling you the problem:  Debian packages have lower
case names.

That I knew. I was trying to find a way to keep the original git project name, which has an upper case F.

> js21@builder:~/deb_alioth/current/fastaq_packaging/fastaq$ uscan --verbose
> --force-download

As always you can find the answer to your question in the Debian Med policy
document.  You should seek for "package_template".  Check out the example
watch file and adapt it.  You will easily get the same as me, which works
nicely and is pushed.

Your fix only works because I have changed the upstream repository to my own on the watch file:

https://github.com/js21/fastaq

Notice the lowercase f.

Had I  kept the original repository:

https://github.com/sanger-pathogens/Fastaq/

uscan would get the upstream tarball, but would buildpackage would complain and grind to a hault, due to the capital F

> It seems to have replaced the uppercase F with the lowercase f but now it
> can't get the source tarball.
>
> I also tried differenl iterations of the filenamemangle regex:
>
> opts=filenamemangle=s/F/f/ \

NNOOOOOO, please don't try to be more clever than uscan!

The package is now built, but I still have lintian E's and W's to fix.

I will run buildpackage once again, this time with the original git project in the watch file to see what happens.

I have a feeling that buildpackage will still complain.

I'll report back when I have done this.

> and
>
> opts=filenamemangle=s/(.*)F(.*)/$1f$2/
>
> And others... But I still get the same error.


Hope this helps

It did help.

Kind regards,

Jorge