On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:38:57PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > This breaks at least all Debian Med packages refereing to Github and > probably way more. This means our toolset will fail to detect new > upstream versions. > > Any idea what to do (besides uploading all packages obtained from > Github right after the release)? >
This was reported as #985633 A fixer for this issue was added to lintian-brush already (version 0.101, fixer debian-watch-file-uses-old-github-pattern). That said, I agree that needing to update and re-upload every package isn't a great way of solving this issue. However, until and unless there is some good way of storing updatable out-of-band package metadata for this purpose, it would be nice if there was a more compact way of specifying the latest-tag case for common hosting platforms (with well-specified APIs) without needing to resort to HTML scraping. Gordon