Bug#841519: devscripts: uscan - Please document temporary dirs and files in manpage

[Jari Aalto]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.16.7
Severity: wishlist

Sometimes uscan starts to download bug fails to complete. As the file
apperas to be downloaded somewhere, only if it could be found to
investigate problem in the chain better.

PLease add to section FILES documentation about location of the
directory used to store temporary files.

Jari


(...)
scan: Newest version of gif2apng on remote site is 1.9, local version is 1.7
uscan:    => Newer package available from
      https://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/gif2apng/gif2apng-1.9-src.zip
uscan info: Downloading upstream package: /watch/sf.php/gif2apng/gif2apng-1.9.zip
uscan info: Requesting URL:
   https://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/gif2apng/gif2apng-1.9-src.zip
uscan info: Successfully downloaded package: /watch/sf.php/gif2apng/gif2apng-1.9.zip
uscan info: Start checking for common possible upstream OpenPGP signature files
uscan info: End checking for common possible upstream OpenPGP signature files
uscan info: Missing OpenPGP signature.
uscan info: New orig.tar.* tarball version (oversionmangled): 1.9
uscan info: Executing internal command:
   mk-origtargz --package gif2apng --version 1.9 --compression gzip --directory .. --copyright-file debian/copyright ..//watch/sf.php/gif2apng/gif2apng-1.9.zip
Could not read ..//watch/sf.php/gif2apng/gif2apng-1.9.zip: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/mk-origtargz line 364.
uscan: error: mk-origtargz --package gif2apng --version 1.9 --compression gzip --directory .. --copyright-file debian/copyright ..//watch/sf.php/gif2apng/gif2apng-1.9.zip gave error exit status 2
	    

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.18.10
ii  libc6        2.23-5
ii  perl         5.24.1~rc3-3
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  apt                         1.3.1
ii  at                          3.1.20-1
ii  curl                        7.47.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.24-2
ii  debian-keyring              2016.08.10
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
pn  equivs                      <none>
ii  fakeroot                    1.21-1
ii  file                        1:5.28-2
ii  gnupg                       1.4.20-6
ii  gnupg2                      2.1.11-7
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.14
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.05-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.20-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.71-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.15-1
ii  licensecheck                3.0.24-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.48
ii  man-db                      2.7.5-1
ii  patch                       2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                  0.3.4-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.29
ii  python3-magic               1:5.28-2
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.12-3
ii  unzip                       6.0-20
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1+b1
ii  wget                        1.18-2
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3
ii  build-essential              12.2
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
ii  devscripts-el                35.12
pn  diffoscope                   <none>
pn  dose-extra                   <none>
ii  gnuplot                      5.0.4+dfsg1-3
ii  gpgv                         1.4.20-6
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.22-1
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.03-1
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.29-1+b2
ii  mailx                        1:20081101-2
pn  mozilla-devscripts           <none>
ii  mutt                         1.6.0-1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:7.2p2-5
pn  reprotest                    <none>
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-29

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/bin/debsign (from devscripts package)