On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:25:46AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Its nice that pts now has a "A new upstream version was found:" > function. But that one is a little bit broken. > For example look at the epiphany package at the moment. It has Version > 0.5.1-1 in the archive but pts says > A new upstream version was found: > (bin-0.5.1). > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/epiphany/epiphany-bin-0.5.1.tar.gz > > Looks like the filter should be adjusted. Either to ignore common bin- > doc- or similar things or to just look at the version number ignoring > whatever else is in the name.
I think the PTS is using the debian/watch files if available. So the problem here may be a bad pcre in the watch file to specify the version. Another problem is that this seems not to be updated very regularly. For example <http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/arj.html> regards, guillem
