Bug#841499: uscan: support searching in multiple directories for matching files

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 04:28:05PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Severity: wishlist
> User: devscripts at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: uscan
> 
> For upstreams that store their downloads in a directory tree with one
> branch per directory, maintainers might want to exclude release
> candidates but uscan currently only considers the newest directory,

Yes, I am aware of this limitation.

> which might only contain release candidates, resulting in not being
> able to see the latest stable release. uscan should scan each directory
> in descending order of version until at least one file was found.
> 
> When this is fixed, this sentence needs removing from the manual:
> 
> (If multiple directories match, the highest version is picked.)

If we do not do this, we need to loop over scanning many pages... Not a
good idea.  Can you think of non-invasive change?

> Here is an example of a watch file that would be fixed by this:
...
> uscan info: Requesting URL:
>    https://cmake.org/files/

How about scanning https://cmake.org/download/

Most HTTP site has this kind of page.  I think complicating page
scanning mechanism for FTP further doesn't seem to be good idea.

Osamu