Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+deb...@mega-nerd.com> writes: > http://zhevny.com/specimen/files/specimen-0.5.2-rc3.tar.gz
Okay. The current list at <URL:http://zhevny.com/specimen/files/> shows the following tarball files: specimen-0.5.1.1.tar.gz specimen-0.5.1.tar.gz specimen-0.5.2-rc1.tar.gz specimen-0.5.2-rc2.tar.gz specimen-0.5.2-rc3.tar.gz I will work on the assumption that there will, in future, be a ‘specimen-0.5.2.tar.gz’ and that the intended meaning will be for that to be *later* than all the above. As it stands, though, ‘0.5.2’ will always compare earlier than ‘0.5.2ANYTHINGATALL’, the opposite of what your upstream apparently wants; which is why special keywords in version strings throw a spanner in the works. But the clever Debian folks have come up with a reasonably sane way to accomodate weird upstream version-comparison perversions. That is done with an exception to the comparisons, using the tilde ‘~’ (see Debian policy §5.6.12. for the details). So you'll need to mangle the upstream version string into a version string that will actually compare the way upstream expects it to: # debian/watch # Debian uscan file for ‘libspecimen’ package. # Manpage: uscan(1) # Compulsory line, this is a version 3 file. version=3 # Current version from Cheese Shop. opts="uversionmangle=s/-([a-z]+\d+)$/~$1/" \ http://zhevny.com/specimen/files/specimen-(.+).tar.gz Using that watch file, I get the following result: $ uscan --package libspecimen --upstream-version 0.5.1 --watchfile watch libspecimen: Newer version (0.5.2~rc3) available on remote site: http://zhevny.com/specimen/files/specimen-0.5.2-rc3.tar.gz (local version is 0.5.1) Not downloading as --package was used. Use --download to force downloading. Hope that helps. -- \ “Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free | `\ than Christianity has made them good.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
