Bug#826146: /usr/bin/uscan: uscan errors out on watchfile that is OK in stable

[James McCoy]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 05:44:34PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> The watch file in couchdb is like this:
> debian/watch
> version=3
> http://couchdb.apache.org/ \
> (?:.*/|.*=|)apache-couchdb[\-\._](\d\S*)\.(?:tar\.xz|txz|tar\.bz2|tbz2|tar\.gz|tgz)(?:/\S*)?
> 
> Testing in a fresh, clean, unstable with couchdb build-deps
> installed, in the current couchdb (1.4.0-3), we find:
> 
> $ uscan
> Undefined subroutine &main::uscan_die called at /usr/bin/uscan line 1713.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/uscan line 1718.
> 
> I assume that's a bug? Should uscan fail in this way? Even with an
> oldish watch file?

This is a bug, yes, in the part of the code that's trying to tell you
that you don't have LWP::UserAgent installed.

I'll fix it shortly.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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