Need help with uscan

2019-04-24 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, I want to package unversioned source. AFAIK, it should be possible to have timestamp of the last tarball change in lieu of upstream version. I am wondering if it would be possible to write uscan rules to extract the timestamp and download the upstream tarball by analyzing the following HTML

Re: Need help with uscan

2019-04-24 Thread Ben Finney
Andrius Merkys writes: > I want to package unversioned source. AFAIK, it should be possible to > have timestamp of the last tarball change in lieu of upstream version. Yes, that is feasible. > I am wondering if it would be possible to write uscan rules to extract > the timestamp and download th

Re: Need help with uscan

2019-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:00 AM Ben Finney wrote: > Andrius Merkys writes: > > I am wondering if it would be possible to write uscan rules to extract > > the timestamp and download the upstream tarball by analyzing [the HTML > > of the index page] > > I don't know enough about hacking UScan for cus

Re: Need help with uscan

2019-04-24 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Ben, On 2019-04-25 03:59, Ben Finney wrote: > So, for an upstream source tarball with timestamp “2013-03-12T12:16”, > mangle that to the version string “0+2013.03.12.12.16” (and hence the > first Debian release of that upstream source has the Debian package > version string “0+2013.03.12.12.16-

Re: Need help with uscan

2019-04-24 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Paul, On 2019-04-25 04:09, Paul Wise wrote: > uscan now supports arbitrary mangling of the page HTML using the > pagemangle option. This combined with the downloadurlmangle option > could easily accommodate this website. Thanks for the directions. I will check this out. > I think that would b