[Dehs-devel] SVN devscripts commit: r359 - in trunk: . debian

[Julian Gilbey]

Author: jdg
Date: 2006-03-27 09:16:15 +0000 (Mon, 27 Mar 2006)
New Revision: 359

Modified:
   trunk/debian/changelog
   trunk/uscan.1
Log:
* uscan: clarify manpage regarding spaces in URLs (Closes: #359190)

Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog	2006-03-27 09:07:52 UTC (rev 358)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog	2006-03-27 09:16:15 UTC (rev 359)
@@ -11,12 +11,13 @@
   * pts-subscribe: Depends on the "at" package (Closes: #353502)
   * uupdate: handle already-unpacked source code archives (Closes: #286253)
   * uscan: avoid warnings on one-word actions (Closes: #356959)
+  * uscan: clarify manpage regarding spaces in URLs (Closes: #359190)
   * debian/rules: remove mention of DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE (see Bug#352626)
 
   [ Joey Hess ]
   * debcommit: Add program name to all error messages.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org>  Sat,  4 Mar 2006 20:03:03 -0500
+ -- Julian Gilbey <jdg at debian.org>  Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:15:54 +0100
 
 devscripts (2.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
 

Modified: trunk/uscan.1
===================================================================
--- trunk/uscan.1	2006-03-27 09:07:52 UTC (rev 358)
+++ trunk/uscan.1	2006-03-27 09:16:15 UTC (rev 359)
@@ -50,19 +50,24 @@
 # opts=pasv ftp://.../...
 
 # This is one format for an HTTP site, which is the same
-# as the FTP format
+# as the FTP format.  uscan starts by downloading the homepage,
+# obtained by removing the last component of the URL; in this case,
+# http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/
 http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/Text-CSV_XS-(.*)\\.tar\\.gz
 
-# This is a variant HTTP format with more possibilities:
+# This is a variant HTTP format which allows direct specification of
+# the homepage:
 # Homepage  Pattern  [Version  [Action]]
 http://www.dataway.ch/~lukasl/amph/amph.html \\
   files/amphetamine-([\\d\\.]*).tar.bz2
 
-# If your package is located on sourceforge, use the following format
-# to automatically use the qa.debian.org redirector, avoiding SF's
-# difficult mirror system.
+# If your package is located on sourceforge, use one of the following
+# formats to automatically use the qa.debian.org redirector, avoiding
+# SF's difficult mirror system.
 http://sf.net/aa-project/aalib-(.*)\\.tar\\.gz
 
+http://sf.net/aa-project/ aalib-(.*)\\.tar\\.gz
+
 # This is the format for a site which has funny version numbers;
 # the parenthesised groups will be joined with dots to make a
 # sanitised version number