Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.20 Severity: normal
I am unable to create a working watch file for ICU because uscan can't quite handle the arguably misguided directory structure used by ICU upstream. Upstream keeps their distributions in ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/<version> which wouldn't ordinarily be a problem because uscan supports this in most cases. There is a catch though: the distribution directories include both the Java and C++ versions of ICU, and sometimes one language has a newer version than the other. If I use this watch line: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/(?:\d+\.[\d\.]+)/icu-([\d\.]+).tgz I get the following (truncated) debug output with uscan --debug --verbose --no-download . -- Scanning for watchfiles in . uscan debug: dir=>/software/globalization/icu/ dirpattern=>(?:\d+\.[\d\.]+) uscan debug: requesting URL ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/ uscan debug: received content: total 72 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.3 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.3.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.4 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.4.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.4.1.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.4.1.2 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.4.2 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.5 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.6 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.7 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.8 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 1.8.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 2.0 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 2.0.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 2.0.2 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 2.0.3 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 2.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 2.2 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 4096 Nov 15 2004 2.4 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Nov 15 2004 2.6 drwxrwsr-x 3 20708 208 4096 Nov 15 2004 2.6.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 4096 Nov 15 2004 2.6.2 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 4096 Nov 15 2004 2.8 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 4096 Nov 15 2004 3.0 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 4096 Mar 4 2005 3.2 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Feb 13 11:47 3.2.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 4096 Jul 29 2005 3.4 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 4096 Feb 27 18:06 3.4.1 drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Jan 24 17:08 3.4.2 drwxrwsr-x 20 20708 208 4096 Mar 21 09:04 icu4j drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Sep 1 2005 icu_tools drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Apr 28 2005 keys drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Jan 17 2005 temp drwxrwsr-x 2 20708 208 256 Mar 20 12:05 tzdata [End of received content] uscan debug: matching pattern (?:\d+\.[\d\.]+) uscan debug: newest_dir => '3.4.2' uscan debug: requesting URL ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/3.4.2// uscan debug: received content: total 35120 -rw-rw-r-- 1 20708 208 7006399 Jan 24 16:08 icu4j_3_4_2.jar -rw-rw-r-- 1 20708 208 1223629 Jan 24 17:07 icu4jdocs_3_4_2.jar -rw-rw-r-- 1 20708 208 9745932 Jan 24 17:08 icu4jsrc_3_4_2.jar [End of received content] uscan debug: matching pattern (?:(?:ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com)?\/software\/globalization\/icu\/3\.4\.2\/\/)?icu-([\d\.]+).tgz uscan warning: In debian/watch no matching files for watch line ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/(?:\d+\.[\d\.]+)/icu-([\d\.]+).tgz The problem here is that 3.4.2 has been released for java, but not for C++. The latest version of the C++ release is in fact 3.4.1, and the contents of 3.4.1 include icu-3.4.1.tgz. uscan doesn't look there though because it's not the newest directory. Clearly we don't want uscan to look in all the subdirectories, so I'm not really sure what a sensible heuristic is. Maybe there actually does need to be an option to look in all matching directories which is disabled by default, or perhaps if a matching file is not found in the newest directory, uscan should check older directories until it runs out of choices or finds a match. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.5.8 Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
