Hi Andreas,
Apparently on the Tags page the links are now generated on the fly by
some Javascript code, and what appears in the page source is mangled
like:
data-download-links="[{"text":"zip","path":"/l_sim/v_sim/-/archive/3.8.0/v_sim-3.8.0.zip"},
You could try to scan for these but that seems rather brittle.
Alternatively maybe GitLab has an API you could use, like what is
documented for GitHub in uscan's man page, but that's only marginally
better and API use may be subject to rate limiting which could cause
issues now or later (rate limiting is definitely an issue on GitHub).
But the best approach is probably to switch to mode=git as this is more
robust and future-proof, and there is no added value in fetching and
using the source archives when they are generated automatically from the
tags in the repository by gitlab. That's just the same content. The same
goes for GitHub and others.
Cheers,
--
Julien Plissonneau Duquène
