Bug#733272: uscan: Clarify options syntax

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Fri Dec 27 23:20:32 UTC 2013


Package: devscripts
Version: 2.13.8

Hi,

Reading the uscan manpage, it says:
| PER-SITE OPTIONS
|      A watch file line may be prefixed with `opts=options',
|      where options is a comma-separated list of options.  The
|      whole options string may be enclosed in double quotes,
|      which is necessary if options contains any spaces.  The
|      recognised options are as follows:

But having something as:
opts=pasv

will result in:
uscan warning: malformed opts=... in watchfile, skipping line:
opts=pasv

The problem is that you need to add the site after that, and
that's not clear from the documentation.  It's also not clear
why you need to do that.  The header of that piece of
documentation seems to suggest that it's per site, so and so
that multiple sites might be supported, but I didn't see anything
indicating that that is supported.

The mangling option all don't really seem to have to do with a
site, so I also don't understand why this would be site specific.


Kurt



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