Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > # Upstream homepage links to a file called puzzles.tar.gz which > # redirects to puzzles-r$version.tar.gz. uscan can't check that. > # However, this is a nightly snapshot numbered according to the SVN > # revision number, so we can extract the version number from its web > # view. > version=3 > opts="filenamemangle=s/.*\?rev=(\d+).*/sgt-puzzles_$1.orig.tar.gz/,downloadurlmangl...@.*\?rev=(\d+)....@http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles-r$1.tar.gz@"; > \ > http://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/puzzles/ /sgt\?rev=(\d+)\&view=rev > > OK, so it's not exactly pretty...
It also fails in those instances where “available from a VCS” does not mean “available as a working tree of files via HTTP”. Some VCS repositories make *only* the revision data available, for various reasons. -- \ “I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate | `\ revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up | _o__) to him real quick and hand it to him.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
