On 30 March 2010 11:15, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Not that it matters at the moment, since the current versions are Git > snapshots, but it will probably matter again eventually. Attached is > a patch to debian/watch that does the proper mangling for release > candidate versions so that 1.3.2rc4 is not considered later than > 1.3.2.
Hello, Thanks for your patch. Are you sure it is correct? I am getting (false?) hints that maybe something is wrong: (1) uscan gives "unrecognised option" warning (but seems to work regardless?): (sid)r...@aquitard:/home/brian/tree/heimdal/git/heimdal-1.4.0~git20100322.dfsg.2# uscan --report-status uscan warning: unrecognised option opts=dversionmangle=s/\.dfsg\.\d+$// Processing watchfile line for package heimdal... Newest version on remote site is 1.3.2, local version is 1.4.0~git20100322.dfsg.2 heimdal: remote site does not even have current version (2) lintian says: W: heimdal source: debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version line 3 N: N: The version of this package contains dfsg, ds, or debian, which N: normally indicates that the upstream source has been repackaged to N: comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (or similar reason), N: but there is no version mangling in the debian/watch file. Since the N: dfsg string is not part of the upstream version, the debian/watch file N: should use the dversionmangle option to remove the dfsg before version N: number comparison. N: N: Refer to the uscan(1) manual page and http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS for N: details. N: N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain N: -- Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
