Bug#804597: [uscan] show progress while downloading

[Osamu Aoki]

control: user devscripts at packages.debian.org
control: usertag -1 uscan
control: tags -1 newcomer

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:12:54PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.15.9
> Severity: wishlist
> User: devscripts at packages.debian.org
> Usertag: uscan

> It would be handy to have some kind of progress bar or a percentual
> thinghy while downloading.

uscan uses LWP module from the libwww-perl package.

If you know how to add such functionality with LWP, please provide a patch
or a pointer to such info.  It should not require to understand how
uscan works itself.

Thanks

Osamu