Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist We know when the watch file has an URL matching with the Perl regexp "^http://sf\.net/";, the uscan program substitutes it with "http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/"; and then applies this rule. The URL redirector service at this http://qa.debian.org/ is designed to offer a stable redirect service to the desired file for the watch file having "http://sf.net/project/tar-name-(.+)\.tar\.gz". This solves issues related to the periodically changing URL there.
But this service is somewhat obscure and its source location and patch submission is hidden well into maze of Debian infrastructure. So my wishlists are: 1. http://qa.debian.org/watch/README needs to provide required pointer to ket information site such as http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch 2. Publish redirector code, so people can create similars for http://code.google.com/ and other site. (Once these becomes standard practice, we can have version=4 watch file where we explicitly specify redirector parameters. This should remove ugly regex in uscan.) (oops, it seems to be available as http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/qa/trunk/wml/watch/ ) But it is still quite unclear how http://ftp.heanet.ie/ (actual site which seems to be doing this) generates these data. The idea of redirector is great since novice developer can get benefit to get latest source using old watch file under stable system for backport. Publishing code helps to populate http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/ directory with many php redirecor code. Osamu -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100515141932.ga17...@osamu.debian.net
