Bug#766878: uscan not downloading new upstream version from sf.net

[Alex Mestiashvili]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.14.10
Severity: normal

trying to get the new upstream version of bowtie2[0]:

uscan --force-download
-- Scanning for watchfiles in .
-- Found watchfile in ./debian
-- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
    opts=filenamemangle=s/(.*)(-source)(\..*$)/$1$3/ 
http://sf.net/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-([\d\.]+)\-source\.zip
-- Found the following matching hrefs:
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.2.4-source.zip (2.2.4)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.2.3-source.zip (2.2.3)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.2.2-source.zip (2.2.2)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.2.1-source.zip (2.2.1)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.2.0-source.zip (2.2.0)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.1.0-source.zip (2.1.0)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.0.6-source.zip (2.0.6)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.0.5-source.zip (2.0.5)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.0.4-source.zip (2.0.4)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.0.3-source.zip (2.0.3)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.0.2-source.zip (2.0.2)
      /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.0.1-source.zip (2.0.1)
Newest version on remote site is 2.2.4, local version is 2.2.4
  => Package is up to date
Newest version on remote site is 2.2.4, local version is 2.2.4
  => Forcing download as requested
-- Downloading updated package /watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.2.4.zip
-- Checking for common possible upstream OpenPGP signatures
Could not read ../tarballs//watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.2.4.zip: 
No such file or directory at /usr/bin/mk-origtargz line 316.
uscan: error: mk-origtargz --package bowtie2 --version 2.2.4 
--compression gzip --directory ../tarballs --copyright-file 
debian/copyright ../tarballs//watch/sf.php/bowtie-bio/bowtie2-2.2.4.zip 
gave error exit status 2

mk-origtargz fails because the file is not downloaded, though I can get 
it via wget.

Thank you,
Alex

[0] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/bowtie2.git

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
USCAN_VERBOSE=yes
USCAN_DESTDIR=../tarballs

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.17.21
ii  libc6        2.19-12
ii  perl         5.20.1-2
ii  python3      3.4.2-1
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                          3.1.16-1
ii  curl                        7.38.0-2
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.23
ii  debian-keyring              2014.08.31
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
ii  dupload                     2.7.0
ii  equivs                      2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.2-1
ii  file                        1:5.20-1
ii  gnupg                       1.4.18-4
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.14
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.03-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.61-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl    2.005-4
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.11-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.64-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.08-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.29
ii  man-db                      2.7.0.2-2
ii  patch                       2.7.1-6
ii  patchutils                  0.3.3-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.25
pn  python3-magic               <none>
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.9-2
ii  unzip                       6.0-12
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1
ii  wget                        1.15-1+b1
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential              11.7
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  gpgv                         1.4.18-4
ii  heirloom-mailx [mailx]       12.5-3
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.07-1
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
pn  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
pn  mutt                         <none>
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.7p1-2
ii  svn-buildpackage             0.8.5+nmu1
pn  w3m                          <none>

-- no debconf information