Le 30/04/2021 à 23:31, Romain Porte a écrit : > Hi fellow Debianites, > > I am currently in the process of packaging grammalecte [1] that relies > on the Fossil SCM [2]. However on the taglist page [3] the links are > directing to Fossil HTML pages, but not .tar.xz files. When browsing out > the 2.1.2 tag HTML page [4], one has to follow the "check-in" link [5] > before being able to download an archive from the resulting page [6]. > > As Fossil seems to be an SCM that could be used by other packages, does > anyone already managed to use uscan with Fossil? I was not able to find > any examples in the manpage nor on codesearch.d.o. I see that uscan > supports custom scripts, so one may be able to follow the links using > the script but I am not sure what software I am allowed to call into the > script and if tools for parsing HTML are available (thinking about > BeautifulSoup Python library). This may be very hacky and manual, and > maybe we should find a way to deal with Fossil SCM together for possible > future packages and document this in the uscan man page. > > Thanks in advance for your highlights,
Hi, no uscan isn't able to do this. The simplest way is to write a "fossil.pm" file in /ussr/share/perl5/Devscripts/Uscan/ (see git.pm or svn.pm). Then it will be possible to use "mode=fossil" in debian/watch and use tags directly. Cheers, Yadd
