[Pkg-octave-devel] uscan is not working for the octave-forge pkgs

[Rafael Laboissiere]

The uscan tool ceased to work for the octave-forge pacakges.  It seems to be
a permanent error in the QA script and it yields the following error message:


$ uscan --verbose
-- Scanning for watchfiles in .
-- Found watchfile in ./debian
-- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
   http://sf.net/octave/bim-(.+)\.tar\.gz
uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
  http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php/octave/ failed: 500 Can't connect to garr.dl.sourceforge.net:80 (connect: timeout)
-- Scan finished


I propose to change the debian/watch files according to the patch below.  It
will be faster and guaranteed to work.  If nobody objects I will make the
changes in SVN soon.


Index: debian/watch
===================================================================
--- debian/watch        (revision 2063)
+++ debian/watch        (working copy)
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 version=3
-http://sf.net/octave/bim-(.+)\.tar\.gz
+http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html \
+    http://downloads\.sourceforge\.net/octave/bim-([\d.]+)\.tar\.gz\?download


-- 
Rafael