Bug#517637: auto-generalise the search regex

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:59:42PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 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.

Oops, I was thinking different bug #763071

I think your assessment is correct.
 
> > #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.

If maintainer specified gz, maybe we should limit only to gz.  If
maintainer wishes to leave coice to uscan use @...@ syntax.

With #763071 fix, at least best compression is chosen by uscan.

I will update changelog to be clear.

Osamu