Bug#850966: Please support ftp search with version number only in the directory name

[Ben Finney]

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On 12-Jan-2017, Ole Streicher wrote:

> one way could be: uscan could check the dir
> ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/stilts/
> 
> for all dirs matching v([\d\.\-]+),

That's easy enough for a human to infer, but I don't see what general
rule UScan could use to determine which patterns should get treated
that way.

> Does this make sense?

It helps, yes.

I am fairly confident this will not be implemented unless someone can
come up with a working implementation that works for general use.

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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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