On 01/12/2021 12:39, Geert Stappers wrote:
Summary: unhide redirectors
On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 09:11:17AM +0100, Yadd wrote:
Hi,
after few discussions with some devscripts maintainers, we decided to build
a new "version=5" format for debian/watch.
Principles:
* keep compatibility with versions 3 and 4, no need to change all
debian/watch files
* new version 5 format using the same syntax than other debian/* files
(rfc822 + "# comments")
* no option renaming (becomes case-insensitive to be compliant with
all formats)
* Version 5:
* Main (first) paragraph contains "Version: 5" and optional options
that change default values for source-paragraph
* 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/...
Example:
Version: 5
....
Of course, comments are welcome!
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.
Example
version=4
https://sf.net/<project>/ <tar-name>-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
becomes something like
Version: 5
Source: https://qa.debian.org/watch/sourceforge/<project>
<tar-name>-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
Fix: will be
Version: 5
Source: https://qa.debian.org/watch/sourceforge/<project>
Regex: <tar-name>-(.+)\.tar\.gz
And I don't think "uupdate" is still useful.
Personally I dislike redirectors. For npmjs, I wrote a
"serachMode=plain" to be able to parse npm JSON result, also because
there are a lot of npmjs packages and redirector was often unable to
respond. This is different of course for sf.net because it needs JS
interpretation
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 )
Yes, doc will be updated
The goal is to have documented that there are extra components being used.
Avoiding nasty surprises.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
Thanks!
P.S.
Awareness of redirectors will get us more redirectors.
Those redirectors will help us to prevent that `uscan`
must get a javascript interpreter
