Bug#778860: [uscan] Followup for #764367 (downloads web page instead of file)

[Felix Natter]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

in 10/2014, a change in devscripts/uscan (#764367) broke watch files
that use the sf redirector service. It was fixed in devscripts-2.14.8
by:

+    + Strip the Referer header when using qa.debian.org's Sourceforge
+      redirector.  When there's a foreign Referer header, Sourceforge responds
+      with a web page containing a <meta refresh=...> redirect to the actual
+      file, causing uscan to save the web page rather than the file.  (Closes:
+      #764367)
(http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?id=fb0e6a67fc059acb89cf0ea7bc9b52cad43d5326)

Now I cannot use the sf redirect service because I need to limit the
search to the "freeplane%20stable/" folder (and the qa.debian.org
redirect does not allow this).

(I am using devscripts 2.15.1 in unstable)

Here is my old watch file (which limits the search to the
"freeplane%20stable/" folder):

  https://github.com/fnatter/freeplane-debian/blob/master/debian/watch

But this fails for the same reason as in #764367:

felix at debianunstable:~/freeplane-unstable/freeplane-debian$ uscan
freeplane: Newer version (1.3.15) available on remote site:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/freeplane_srcpure-1.3.15.tar.gz/download
  (local version is 1.3.12)
Unknown or no compression used in ../freeplane_srcpure-1.3.15.tar.gz. at
/usr/bin/mk-origtargz line 336.
uscan: error: mk-origtargz --package freeplane --version 1.3.15
--compression gzip --directory .. --copyright-file debian/copyright
../freeplane_srcpure-1.3.15.tar.gz gave error exit status 255

wget
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/freeplane_srcpure-1.3.15.tar.gz/download
works (beside the fact that it downloads as 'download').

--> would you consider fixing this (maybe add a
"sourceforge.net/projects" special case as well or add a
'remove_referer' option?)?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Felix

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

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

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.17.23
ii  libc6        2.19-15
ii  perl         5.20.1-5
ii  python3      3.4.2-2
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                          3.1.16-1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.23
ii  debian-keyring              2014.12.10
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
ii  equivs                      2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.2-1
ii  file                        1:5.22+15-1
ii  gnupg                       1.4.18-6
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                     2.5.30+deb8u3
ii  man-db                      2.7.0.2-5
ii  patch                       2.7.4-2
ii  patchutils                  0.3.3-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.25
ii  python3-magic               1:5.22+15-1
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.9-2
ii  unzip                       6.0-16
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1
ii  wget                        1.16-3
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-1
ii  build-essential              11.7
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  debbindiff                   <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.6-2
ii  gpgv                         1.4.18-6
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>
ii  mutt                         1.5.23-3
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.7p1-3
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-19

-- no debconf information

-- 
Felix Natter