[Pkg-ime-devel] debian/watch for scim package (was: AMD64 patch etc.)

Osamu Aoki osamu@debian.org
Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:15:41 +0100


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:55:18PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:17:46PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:52:45PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> 
> This is very strange, since I tooke quite some time to test and made
> sure it works.  It is also working for me here:
>     $ uscan --report
>     scim: Newer version (1.1.1) available on remote site
>       (local version is 1.0.2)

Yes.  See below.

> Are you trying to download the files as well (without --report option)?

Yes.  See below.

> Googling revealed some mailing list posts saying it's shaky to download
> files with SF predownloads URL, but should work for just checking.
> Actually evendownloading works for me:
>     $ uscan
>     scim: Newer version (1.1.1) available on remote site
>       (local version is 1.0.2)
>     scim: Successfully downloaded updated package scim-1.1.1.tar.gz
>         and symlinked scim_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz to it
>     uupdate: a native Debian package cannot take upstream updates

You have native package.  Look into file you downloaded.  It is not
tar.gz file.  It is an html file.  See below.

> If it's not working for you even with --report option, would you please
> post the result of ``uscan --report --verbose''?  Thanks.

How about this:

osamu@dambo:B8$ apt-get source scim
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 2342kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.skynet.be unstable/main scim 1.0.1-4 (dsc) [770B]
Get:2 http://ftp.skynet.be unstable/main scim 1.0.1-4 (tar) [2312kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.skynet.be unstable/main scim 1.0.1-4 (diff) [29.4kB]
Fetched 2342kB in 6s (350kB/s)
dpkg-source: extracting scim in scim-1.0.1
osamu@dambo:B8$ uscan --report
scim: Newer version (1.1.1) available on remote site
  (local version is 1.0.1)
osamu@dambo:B8$ uscan
scim: Newer version (1.1.1) available on remote site
  (local version is 1.0.1)
scim: Successfully downloaded updated package scim-1.1.1.tar.gz
    and symlinked scim_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz to it
New Release will be 1.1.1-1.
/arc/scm/scim/B8/uupdate-temp.15090
-- Untarring the new sourcecode archive ../scim_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
uupdate: can't unpack: tar zxf ../scim_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz failed;
aborting...
scim_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz failed;
aborting...
osamu@dambo:B8$ top scim_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz
        top: unknown argument 'm'
usage:  top -hv | -bcisS -d delay -n iterations [-u user | -U user] -p pid [,pid ...]

osamu@dambo:B8$ head scim_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz
<HTML><HEAD>
                <TITLE>Select a Mirror for File: /scim/scim-1.1.1.tar.gz</TITLE>                </HEAD>
                <style type="text/css">
   body {
    background-image: url("http://images.sourceforge.net/prdownloads/sf-stipple.png");
    background-color: #aaa;
        margin: 0;
   }
   td { font: small sans-serif; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em;}
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Get the idea :-)


> > (Besides, current pattern will grub 1.1.1 instead)
> 
> Good catch.  I'll change it to only check for 1.0.x branch and check-in
> to SVN.

Good.