Dear Carsten, thank for your reply and your patience with me. :)
On 2024-03-29 16:23 Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de> wrote: > You need to use "opts=mode=git, ...", see the man page of uscan. Are you sure. For example this watch file do not use "opts=" https://sources.debian.org/src/backintime/1.4.3-1/debian/watch/ Also some examples on the wikipage about "debian/watch" do not use "opts=". Please be aware that I don't only want to solve one technical problem with one specific package. I want to understand the whole thing ("big picture") to improve the documentation. > > opts="mode=git, \ > > > > uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha)\.?\d*)$/$1~$2/, > > \ dversionmangle=s/\+ds(\.?\d+)?$//" \ > > https://codeberg.org/buhtz/hyperorg.git \ > > refs/tags/v(\d+\S+) > > And uscan will find the most recent version matching the regexp. I see 3 different regex patterns in this line. Why?
