Package: devscripts Version: 2.25.19 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I'm trying to update my d/watch files to version 5 - it's really much more readable. unfortunately, i've run into the following issue: my upstream uses tags with a 'v' prefix (e.g. 'v0.6.1'), and for whatever reason, the gitlab-template keeps this prefix and does not allow me to strip it away. Consider the following d/watch: ``` Version: 5 Template: Gitlab Dist: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin ``` Running it yields: ``` uscan --package test --upstream-version 0 --report --watchfile watch Newest version of test on remote site is v0.6.1, local version is 0 => Newer package available from: => https://git.iem.at/api/v4/projects/485/repository/archive.tar.gz?sha=v0.6.1 ``` as you can see, the upstream version is 'v0.6.1', rather than just '0.6.1' now a version4 watchfile that looks like this: ``` version=4 opts=\ searchmode=plain \ https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/tags?sort=updated_desc -/archive/v?\d[\d.-]+/vstplugin-@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ ``` works just nicely: ``` $ uscan --package test --upstream-version 0 --report --watchfile watch4 Newest version of test on remote site is 0.6.1, local version is 0 => Newer package available from: => https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/archive/v0.6.1/vstplugin-v0.6.1.tar.bz2 ``` so the automatic mangling of upstream version seems to be broken. it does not help, that #1116633 prevents me from using my own mangling rules. with the patch from #1116633 applied, I could at least use ``` Version: 5 Template: Gitlab Dist: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin Uversion-Mangle: s/v//g ``` but this really shouldn't be necessary
