On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:40:09AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> the github example in uscan(1) appears to be rejected by uscan as
> having a "potentially unsafe or malformed filenamemangle pattern".
>
> It's not clear to me what the problem is or how i should resolve it.
> either the documentation or the definition of safe_replace() in
> scripts/uscan.pl should be updated so that they're aligned.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> 0 dkg@alice:~/src/win-iconv/win-iconv$ man uscan | grep -A10 'For GitHub
> based'
> For GitHub based projects, you can use the tags or releases page. The
> archive URL uses only the version as the filename. You can rename the
> downloaded upstream tarball from into the standard
> <project>-<version>.tar.gz using filenamemangle:
>
> version=4
>
> opts="filenamemangle="s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz%<project>-$1.tar.gz%" \
----^
There's an extraneous " in the example. This was originally reported in
#814049, but that has been repurposed to fix the wording of the error.
The example itself is fixed in git, which we'll be uploading soon.
Cheers,
James
