Re: Uscan no longer works with GitLab tags

[Michel Lind]

On 4/3/24 5:19 PM, Fay Stegerman wrote:

* Mike Gabriel <sunwea...@debian.org> [2024-04-03 10:00]:

On Tuesday, April 2, 2024 8:22:26 AM MST Mike Gabriel wrote:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-ayatana-team/appmenu-gtk-module/-/blob/

master/

debian/watch

```
version=3
https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel-appmenu/-/tags/?([\d\.]+)
.*/uploads/.*/appmenu-gtk-module-?([\d\.]+)\.tar\.xz
```

The above used to successfully download the appmenu-gtk-module tarball
from the vala-panel-appmenu releases page:
https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel-appmenu/-/releases

Try the attached watch file.

This works for vala-panel-appmenu, but not for appmenu-gtk-module. The
packaging of vala-panel-appmenu, appmenu-gtk-module and appmenu-registrar is
a bit special, because all three packages get built from the same source
code tree.

[...]

The appmenu-gtk-module code is a subfolder in upstream vala-panel-appmenu
(subprojects/appmenu-gtk-module) and that subfolder was packaged as a
separate src:pkg in Debian at the time when it got introduced.

For this the upstream maintainer provides appmenu-gtk-module as a separate
tarball  for download at [1].

So the watch file should achieve downloading this exact tarball, i.e. 
https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel-appmenu/uploads/6c0332e34c41e99de5a1db1fc4239de2/appmenu-gtk-module-24.02.tar.xz

Only chew on this if you really want to nut-crack it. I have burnt quite a
few brain cells on it yesterday and failed (which does not mean you will
also, but be warned, the solution does not seem trivial, however, maybe it
is).

GitLab asset download URLs are a bit of a mess, but the attached watch file
seems to give me that exact URL.

Thanks for this! I have a similar problem with archlinux-keyring - which uses a different GitLab instance, gitlab.archlinux.org

wget handled the URL just fine. curl also gets an HTML page...

Best regards,

--
 _o) Michel Lind
_( ) identities: https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2

Using your watch file as a template, I managed to capture the exact URL needed (tried using that and also matching on the releases URL), but I still get stuck on the fact that uscan gets given an HTML page prompting to login instead.

OpenPGP_0x8B229D2F7CCC04F2.asc
Description: OpenPGP public key

OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature