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Bug#821187: uscan workaround



So is there an estimate on when the new watch files will be uploaded?
I'm just hoping this will give an indication of when we can expect Plasma 5.6.x
to be available in Debian.


On Monday, May 16, 2016 11:44 AM, Maximiliano Curia <maxy@debian.org> wrote:


¡Hola Mr!

El 2016-05-15 a las 09:44 +0000, Mr riaas mokiem escribió:
> I think it might be possible to work around the uscan bug by only having the
> URL for stable releases in the watch file. This means you no longer track the
> unstable releases but it should almost certainly work.

> You may also be able to track both stable and unstable releases with 1 URL:
> http://download.kde.org/(?:un)?stable/plasma/([\d.]+)/libksysguard-([\d.]+)
> \.tar\.xz

Currently that only checks the unstable versions, as uscan decides which
subtrees would visit on every pattern, in the (unstable|stable) case it simply
selects unstable as its greater than stable.

Uscan would need to check every pattern alternative for this to work
correctly, which is not main use case of uscan and can be easily become
overkill.

In particular for the kde packages, I'm not sure if we want to track the
unstable versions with uscan at all.


> As mentioned before, I think this problem may affect many other KDE packages,
> mostly from Plasma and Frameworks. The KDE Applications seem to be fine since
> most of those only seem to track the stable URL.


I think that I've already removed the unstable paths from the watch files for
framewors, plasma and apps, in my work in progress repos, that I'm planning to
upload shortly.

Happy hacking,
--
"The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take."
-- Roy Carlson
Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/


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