Bug#814363: Fix debian/watch for multipath-tools

[Andrew Patterson]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:45:01 -0700 Nicholas Luedtke <nicholas.luedtke at hpe.com> wrote:
> tags 814363 + patch
> 
> On 02/11/2016 01:07 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 13:09 -0700, Nicholas Luedtke wrote:
> >> Package: multipath-tools
> >> Version: 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-1
> >>
> >>
> >> The watch file is broken.  Below is the error message received when
> >> using the watch file. Seems like the page is no longer accessible?
> >>
> >> -- Scanning for watchfiles in .
> >> -- Found watchfile in ./debian
> >> -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
> >>
> >> http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/multipath-tools/multipath-tools-([\
> >> d\.]*)\.tar\.bz2
> >> uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
> >>   http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/multipath-tools/ failed: 403
> >> Forbidden
> >> -- Scan finished
> > 
> > I actually had a more hilarious result looking at the upstream link,
> > after your bug report.
> > 
> > “Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received
> > from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please
> > contact administrator for more information.”
> > 
> > 
> > Joke aside, in case of multipath-tools, it shouldn't matter. The
> > upstream releases are very slow. And these days most of the management
> > work is done in the git repo.
> > 
> > If you want you can send me a patch tracking the git repo's tags.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thats an even better result for sure!
> 
> Attached is a patch for the watch file, but using uscan I think there is
> a bug which processes '-' before '+' in version comparison...
> 
> -- 
> Nicholas Luedtke
> Linux for HP Helion OpenStack, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

Shouldn't this point to upstream rather than debian. In other words --
http://git.opensvc.com/gitweb.cgi?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=tags

Andrew

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Andrew Patterson
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise