Package: qa.debian.org Why is the version of krank still red (magenta) colored?
nbw:[~/work/deb/krank/krank-0.7+dfsg1]$ LANG=C uscan --no-download --verbose -- Scanning for watchfiles in . -- Found watchfile in ./debian -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line: opts="dversionmangle=s/^0\.(.*?)\+dfsg\d/0$1/" http://sf.net/krank/krank-(\d+(?:\.\d+)*)\.tar\.(?:gz|bz2) -- Found the following matching hrefs: krank-07.tar.bz2 krank-07.tar.bz2 Newest version on remote site is 07, local version is 0.7+dfsg1 (mangled local version number 07) => Package is up to date -- Scan finished On 21:06 Wed 11 Mar , Raphael Geissert wrote: RG> Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: >> Package: qa.debian.org >> >> Please, look at my developer page: >> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=un...@debian.org >> >> Why is watch version of krank red colored? RG> I believe you meant magenta >> Debian contains the version 0.7+dfsg1-7, watch showes the version >> 0.7+dfsg1 RG> If you run lintian with -I on the source package you will see it emits RG> debian-watch-file-should-dversionmangle-not-uversionmangle RG> N: debian-watch-file-should-dversionmangle-not-uversionmangle RG> N: RG> N: The version of this package contains dfsg, ds, or debian, but a RG> N: misleading upstream version mangling occurs in the debian/watch file. RG> N: Since the dfsg string is not part of the upstream version and its RG> N: addition is Debian-specific, the the debian/watch file should use the RG> N: dversionmangle option to remove, instead of adding in uversionmangle, RG> N: the dfsg before comparing version numbers. RG> N: RG> N: Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS for details. RG> N: RG> N: Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain RG> N: >> >> quote from http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/report.php?package=krank: RG> [...] >> o Upstream Version: 0.7+dfsg1 RG> [...] >> o Debian Version: 0.7+dfsg1-7 RG> Sure, the thing is: since there are still many packages[1] which don't RG> remove the dfsg bit from the Debian version, both DEHS and the DDPO strip RG> it for them. DEHS has an extra hack, which I've not copied to the DDPO RG> code, which attempts to detect whether the upstream version (whether RG> modified by the watch file or not) has the dfsg bit, and if it does it RG> doesn't strip it from the Debian version. RG> The best solution for this would be to: RG> 1.- fix all watch files that trigger debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version RG> and debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version RG> 2.- remove all the hacks RG> 3.- everyone happy RG> [1]http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version.html RG> Cheers, -- ... mpd is off . ''`. Dmitry E. Oboukhov : :’ : email: un...@debian.org jabber://un...@uvw.ru `. `~’ GPGKey: 1024D / F8E26537 2006-11-21 `- 1B23 D4F8 8EC0 D902 0555 E438 AB8C 00CF F8E2 6537
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