On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 12:39:41PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Summary: unhide redirectors
And not only. > On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 09:11:17AM +0100, Yadd wrote: > > after few discussions with some devscripts maintainers, we decided to build > > a new "version=5" format for debian/watch. To be clear, this is a *very* non-ready proposal that we are getting through the wider community. Nothing of this is implemented anywhere. > > * URL and regex are separated > > * Some default values change. For example, `dversionmangle` default > > value will be "auto" (drop +dfsg, ~ds,...), uversionmangle=s/-/~/g, > > filenamemangle=s/.*?(\d[\d\.]*@ARCHIVE_EXT@)/@PACKAGE@-$1/... I honestly would like to add website-aware functionalities to uscan, such as exactly this. > I think the move from v4 to v5 is an excellent opportunity > to express in the watch file that there is a dependency on a redirector. [..] > Version: 5 > Source: https://qa.debian.org/watch/sourceforge/<project> > <tar-name>-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate I would like something like: Source: qa-redirector Source-Options: name: sourceforge project: <project> Likewise, I would love if uscan could just learn how github, gitlab, launchpad, etc are made so prople won't have to bother with sticking urls into watchfiles, such as: Source: GitHub Source-Options: namespace: trendmicro project: tlsh match-on: tags|releases To go either matching on https://github.com/trendmicro/tlsh/tags or https://github.com/trendmicro/tlsh/releases. using then Scheme (a name that, tbh, I don't particularly like right now) for the tags or releases regex. > And I think such change will allow removal of > > bare > Disable all site specific special case code such as URL > redirector uses and page content alterations. > > from the uscan code and uscan manual page (they are in /usr/bin/uscan ) > > > The goal is to have documented that there are extra components being used. > Avoiding nasty surprises. this feels like the opposite direction I'm proposing above :D > Awareness of redirectors will get us more redirectors. > Those redirectors will help us to prevent that `uscan` > must get a javascript interpreter. Possibly, I'm indeed kind of unimpressed that we grew a parse for nodejs' package.json and perl's META.json. Though I accepted it because I saw some value, I'm totally in awe of universes where that is actually needed.. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
