Hi, I want to create a watch file for a package that contains a single text file (which itself has the version into it):
------------------------------8------------------------------------ version=3 http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/igrf.html igrf(\d+)coeffs.txt \ debian debian/repackage.sh ------------------------------8------------------------------------ The "repackage.sh" script would then just create a tarball: ------------------------------8------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh set -e VERSION=$2 BASEDIR=$(dirname $3) cd $BASEDIR tar cf igrf-coefficients_$VERSION.orig.tar igrf${VERSION}coeffs.txt rm -f igrf${VERSION}coeffs.txt xz igrf-coefficients_$VERSION.orig.tar exec uupdate --no-symlink --upstream-version ${VERSION} igrf_${VERSION}.orig.tar.xz ------------------------------8------------------------------------ However, when I run this, uscan complaints: ------------------------------8------------------------------------ $ uscan uscan: Newest version of igrf-coefficients on remote site is 12, local version is 10 uscan: => Newer package available from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/igrf12coeffs.txt Parameter ../igrf12coeffs.txt does not look like a tar archive or a zip file. at /usr/bin/mk-origtargz line 375. uscan: error: mk-origtargz --package igrf-coefficients --version 12 --compression gzip --directory .. --copyright-file debian/copyright ../igrf12coeffs.txt gave error exit status 255 ------------------------------8------------------------------------ --debug does not show more here. What is wrong here? I thought that mk-orig.tar.gz should be called only when it is a tar archive? Best Ole
