Bug#833012: Need better example URL

Sean Whitton spwhitton at spwhitton.name
Sat Sep 9 19:54:19 UTC 2017


Hello Osamu,

On Sun, Sep 03 2017, Osamu Aoki wrote:

> When I checked, the recent release doesn't have "-signed" in the
> "Version 0.4.12" while older release has "Version 0.4.7.1-signed".
> Strange.  Are you sure this site still provides signature file?  If you
> add ".asc" before "?" as

The -signed has nothing to do with PGP.  Please ignore it.

>   https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/423258/self_destructing_cookies-0.4.10-an+fx.xpi.asc?src=version-history
>
> This URL with wget downloads the same
> self_destructing_cookies-0.4.10-an+fx.xpi file !!!  This can't be the
> signature file.  (Too big too)

Urgh.  This is a problem at Mozilla's end, I guess.  Unless uscan adds a
size heuristic I don't think we can work around it.

Unfortunately the only cases where I saw this bug were packages obtained
from addons.mozilla.org, so I don't have another test case for you.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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