[devscripts] 01/02: uscan: Strip whitespace from hrefs before processing (Closes: #833779)

[Paul Wise]

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commit a4ca60a4f5ba85f3befd6aaf4d0ee0d5af81bb6d
Author: Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 15 11:24:09 2016 +0800

    uscan: Strip whitespace from hrefs before processing (Closes: #833779)
---
 debian/changelog | 2 ++
 scripts/uscan.pl | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 45df58d..64f2e75 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ devscripts (2.16.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     + Fix the script for the removal of testing.pl from release.debian.org
   * dscverify:
     + Fix bash completion of the --no-conf option
+  * uscan:
+    + Strip whitespace from hrefs before processing (Closes: #833779)
   * Suggest reprotest for reproducible builds testing (Closes: #786755)
 
   [ Jakub Wilk ]
diff --git a/scripts/uscan.pl b/scripts/uscan.pl
index 9403ba6..b406b88 100755
--- a/scripts/uscan.pl
+++ b/scripts/uscan.pl
@@ -2957,7 +2957,11 @@ sub process_watchline ($$$$$$)
 	while ($content =~ m/<\s*a\s+[^>]*href\s*=\s*([\"\'])(.*?)\1/sgi) {
 	    my $href = $2;
 	    my $mangled_version;
+	    # Remove whitespace from URLs:
+	    # https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#links-created-by-a-and-area-elements
 	    $href =~ s/\n//g;
+	    $href =~ s/^\s+//;
+	    $href =~ s/\s+$//;
 	    foreach my $_pattern (@patterns) {
 		if ($href =~ m&^$_pattern$&) {
 		    if ($watch_version == 2) {

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