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

[Ming Hua]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:15:41AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 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:
> > 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.

I have a version 1.0.2-0.SVN1 in my local work directory (so it can
upgrade to official packages once they are uploaded), no idea why
uupdate doesn't like it, but that's not important (at least not for
now).

> Look into file you downloaded.  It is not
> tar.gz file.  It is an html file.  See below.

You are right.
    $ file scim-1.1.1.tar.gz
    scim-1.1.1.tar.gz: HTML document text
Argggh.

> Get the idea :-)

So indeed SF predownload URL is only good for checking version, but not
downloading.  I remember reading that if you put a specific server name
in watch file, the download will fail as well since the connection is
not from SF webpage.  I don't know what to do now since SF is the only
repository of SCIM projects now.

On the other hand, I think the current half-working (or half-broken :-)
is not too bad.

Ming
2005.01.11