Hi, On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 04:28:05PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: devscripts > Severity: wishlist > User: devscri...@packages.debian.org > Usertags: uscan > > For upstreams that store their downloads in a directory tree with one > branch per directory, maintainers might want to exclude release > candidates but uscan currently only considers the newest directory,
Yes, I am aware of this limitation. > which might only contain release candidates, resulting in not being > able to see the latest stable release. uscan should scan each directory > in descending order of version until at least one file was found. > > When this is fixed, this sentence needs removing from the manual: > > (If multiple directories match, the highest version is picked.) If we do not do this, we need to loop over scanning many pages... Not a good idea. Can you think of non-invasive change? > Here is an example of a watch file that would be fixed by this: ... > uscan info: Requesting URL: > https://cmake.org/files/ How about scanning https://cmake.org/download/ Most HTTP site has this kind of page. I think complicating page scanning mechanism for FTP further doesn't seem to be good idea. Osamu
