On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:00 AM Ben Finney wrote: > Andrius Merkys writes: > > I am wondering if it would be possible to write uscan rules to extract > > the timestamp and download the upstream tarball by analyzing [the HTML > > of the index page] > > I don't know enough about hacking UScan for custom mangling like that. > AFAIK, the mangling that UScan does is built into the tool, I don't know > about custom extensions.
uscan now supports arbitrary mangling of the page HTML using the pagemangle option. This combined with the downloadurlmangle option could easily accommodate this website. I think that would be a workaround and the real fix is to talk upstream into importing their code into a VCS and producing properly signed and tagged releases (with signed versioned tarballs). -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
