On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:47:58PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > When I type the requested URL, say for example > > > > http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/docbook-xsl > > > > Then an Internal Server Error is reported and the page > > itself shows: > > > > "No mirror could satisfy the request. Please report this > > message to debian-qa@lists.debian.org" > > > > Thanks for reporting, am already aware of it. > Sourceforge recently made some incompatible changes and there's at the > moment no workaround.
No workaround ? > > > Using uscan on the command line works. > > Only if it is from devscripts 2.10.31 or greater (lenny was released > with .35), which is smarter when redirected (required by the only > sourceforge mirror that keeps the redirector working.) I understand that using one mirror directly is a temporary approach that should be replaced by something going via the sourceforge mirror-selection system. This can be solved for debian/watch files using http://sf.net/<projectname>/<filenamebase>-(.*)\.tar\.gz and similar, by enhancing the sf.net redirector with the following algorithm: - Access http://sourceforge.net/projects/<projectname> Parse the html to find the value of the group_id. - Access http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=... Parse the html to find the values of the package_id's. - For each package_id: - Access http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=...&package_id=... Parse the html to verify whether it contains files matching the pattern <filenamebase>-(.*)\.tar\.gz. - If it does contain files matching, then find the filename with the highest version number. This is a preliminary result. - After processing all package_id's, select the preliminary result with the highest version number. This is the final result. So far what to do to make the existing debian/watch files continue to work without depending on the only sf.net mirror that keeps the redirector currently working. Later on, a nice-to-have would be support for specifying a package_id in debian/watch, so that the searching for the newest upstream release can be limited to only one sf.net package within the sf.net group, instead of all packages in the group. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
