Re: [RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:24 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:07:01AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > I found a while back that this URL redirects to the files page:
> >
> > http://sf.net/projects/foo/files
> >
> > Slightly more readable than the URL you used.
>
> Thanks, this avoids the group_id search, so the audacity case can be trimmed to:
[...]
> version=3
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/files http://downloads.sourceforge.net/.+/audacity-src-(.+)\.tar\.gz.+
>
> (ok, this would download also 1.3.5 which is marked as unstable, but it is
> irrilevant)
*dons devscripts maintainer hat*
fwiw, if I were applying this change at the moment, it would be likely
to be commited as per the attached.
*removes hat*
Thomas has a reasonable point though; it would be good not to break
existing watch files using sf.net.
Adam
Index: scripts/uscan.1
===================================================================
--- scripts/uscan.1 (revision 1502)
+++ scripts/uscan.1 (working copy)
@@ -68,20 +68,12 @@
Twisted-([\\d\\.]*)\\.tar\\.bz2
http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/(\\d\.\\d)/Twisted-([\\d\\.]*)\\.tar\\.bz2
-# If your package is located on sourceforge, use one of the following
-# formats to automatically use the qa.debian.org redirector, avoiding
-# SF's difficult mirror system.
-http://sf.net/audacity/audacity-src-(.+)\\.tar\\.gz
+# If your package is located on sourceforge, you can avoid its
+# mirror system by using the following format. Note that the trailing
+# \?.+ is required.
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/files \\
+ http://downloads.sourceforge.net/.+/audacity-src-(.+)\\.tar\\.gz\\?.+
-http://sf.net/audacity/ audacity-src-(.+)\\.tar\\.gz
-
-# If the qa.debian.org redirector does not produce any results for
-# your sourceforge-hosted project, you can use the following format
-# to check for new versions. Note that it does not seem to be
-# possible to download the files via this method.
-ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/a/au/audacity/ \\
- audacity-src-([\\d\\.]+)\\.tar\\.(gz|bz2)
-
# This is the format for a site which has funny version numbers;
# the parenthesised groups will be joined with dots to make a
# sanitised version number
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