Hi fellow Debianites, I am currently in the process of packaging grammalecte [1] that relies on the Fossil SCM [2]. However on the taglist page [3] the links are directing to Fossil HTML pages, but not .tar.xz files. When browsing out the 2.1.2 tag HTML page [4], one has to follow the "check-in" link [5] before being able to download an archive from the resulting page [6].
As Fossil seems to be an SCM that could be used by other packages, does anyone already managed to use uscan with Fossil? I was not able to find any examples in the manpage nor on codesearch.d.o. I see that uscan supports custom scripts, so one may be able to follow the links using the script but I am not sure what software I am allowed to call into the script and if tools for parsing HTML are available (thinking about BeautifulSoup Python library). This may be very hacky and manual, and maybe we should find a way to deal with Fossil SCM together for possible future packages and document this in the uscan man page. Thanks in advance for your highlights, Romain. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860579 [2] http://code.grammalecte.net:8080/home [3] http://code.grammalecte.net:8080/taglist [4] http://code.grammalecte.net:8080/timeline?t=v2.1.2 [5] http://code.grammalecte.net:8080/info/8d70c5ae60b892cd [6] http://code.grammalecte.net:8080/tarball/8d70c5ae60/Grammalecte-8d70c5ae60.tar.gz
