Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 18:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> However, I don't think this helps with the original problem on the >> thread where upstream uses only a VCS. I think that's a bad idea, but >> some upstreams do it, and right now uscan doesn't handle that sort of >> case (and it's rather outside its current purpose). > > Sure it does: > > # Upstream homepage links to a file called puzzles.tar.gz which > # redirects to puzzles-r$version.tar.gz. uscan can't check that. > # However, this is a nightly snapshot numbered according to the SVN > # revision number, so we can extract the version number from its web > # view. If there's a nightly snapshot tarball, upstream isn't *only* using a VCS. Although, hm, maybe you could hack something like that up using gitweb's tarball downloader.... -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org