Bug#517637: auto-generalise the search regex

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:44:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 23:28 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 
> > As I thought about this bug report and  https://bugs.debian.org/539780 ,
> > these share the same solution
> > 
> >   predefined string substitution applied to the watch file before any
> >   procerssing
> > 
> > I can think of @package@ @version@ @suffix@ @YYMMDD@ ... as the
> > candidates since no watch file uses @...@ I hope.
> 
> I think these two requests are slightly different but I agree that
> something your proposed solution to #539780 is definitely needed and is
> probably a prerequisite for implementing #517637.

Yes.  You do not want to pick tar.gz when tar.xz exists.

> #517637 is more about, for watch files that do not use the proposed
> @...@ syntax, if no files are found or if the package is up-to-date
> then look for some newer files that use one of the common extensions.

It now sort by version and suffix (with priority given to xz) with a bit
rough huristics.  

Osamu