Debian Bug report logs - #364116
[uscan] please add --force-download to download tarball when pkg is up to date

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: please add --force-download to download tarball when pkg is up to date

Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:56:37 -0400

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.9.18
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/uscan

A lot of packages (collaboratively) maintained with versioning
repositories do not have upstream tarballs committed in the repository.
It is a common need to download the usptream tarball of a given package,
no matter if the version reported in debian/changelog is up to date or
not wrt upstream version.

Since uscan knows how to get upstream tarball it seems to me a good
candidate for such a job.  It would be enough to add a --force-download
flag which downloads upstream tarball no matter the comparison among
debian and upstream versions.

Could you please add such an option to uscan?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.15.6     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.13.18    package building tools for Debian
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.8.8-4    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                           4.1.4-7    The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.8      Gives a fake root environment

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Message #10 received at 364116@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Wienand <ianw@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <364116@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: devscripts: Patch for --force-download

Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:30:50 +1000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.9.20
Followup-For: Bug #364116

Hi,

I agree this would be good; for example many packages using
svn-buildpackage don't appear to include upstream tarballs.

Attached is a patch to implement --force-download.  Verbose output
would look similar to below

ianw@jj:~/programs/pkg-bluetooth/gnome-bluetooth/trunk$ /tmp/devscripts-2.9.20/uscan.pl --verbose --force-download
-- Scanning for watchfiles in .
-- Found watchfile in ./debian
-- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-bluetooth/([\d\.]+)/gnome-bluetooth-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz debian
-- Found the following matching hrefs:
     gnome-bluetooth-0.7.0.tar.gz
Newest version on remote site is 0.7.0, local version is 0.7.0
 => Package is up to date
Newest version on remote site is 0.7.0, local version is 0.7.0
 => Forcing download as requested
-- Downloading updated package gnome-bluetooth-0.7.0.tar.gz
-- Successfully downloaded updated package gnome-bluetooth-0.7.0.tar.gz
    and symlinked gnome-bluetooth_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz to it
-- Scan finished

Thanks,

-i

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.17       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.13.22    package building tools for Debian
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.8.8-6    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                           4.1.5-1    The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.10     Gives a fake root environment

-- no debconf information

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Message #21 received at 364116-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn+deb@diwi.org>

To: 364116-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#364116: fixed in devscripts 2.10.0

Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:17:01 +0000

Source: devscripts
Source-Version: 2.10.0

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
devscripts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

devscripts_2.10.0.dsc
  to pool/main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.0.dsc
devscripts_2.10.0.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.0.tar.gz
devscripts_2.10.0_i386.deb
  to pool/main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.10.0_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 364116@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn+deb@diwi.org> (supplier of updated devscripts package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:53:35 +0100
Source: devscripts
Binary: devscripts
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.10.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Devscripts Devel Team <devscripts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn+deb@diwi.org>
Description: 
 devscripts - Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Closes: 364116 369691 381152 381731 382884 386124 394809 397720 398178 400568 403207 403859 404952 409028 411591 412186 413793 414051 414200 414907
Changes: 
 devscripts (2.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Julian Gilbey ]
   * debchange: fix Ubuntu's distro codename check (bash regexp!)
   * control: change maintainer name to mailing list (Closes: #411591)
 .
   [ Mohammed Adnène Trojette ]
   * debian/control:
      + add myself to Uploaders.
      + suggest bzr, not bazaar (deprecated). (Closes: #414051)
      + suggest git.
   * po4a/po/fr.po: update French manpage translation (Closes: #400568)
      + Patch from Julien Cristau.
   * debdiff: allow use with no argument (Closes: #369691)
      + Patch from Julien Danjou.
   * deb-reversion: change license to Artistic 2.0. (Closes: #381731)
 .
   [ Christoph Berg ]
   * Also joining the team
   * dget: consult apt-get source for missing files (Closes: #394809)
   * rmadison: new upstream version, supports querying other archives
     (specifically backports.org)
 .
   [ Stefano Zacchiroli ]
   * package maintenance changes
     + debian/control:
       - added myself as an uploader
       - added XS-Vcs-Browser field
       - bumped debhelper deps to >> 5 (changed debian/compat accordingly)
     + added debian/svn-deblayout with the default tags dir
     + moved examples under examples/ (changed debian/examples accordingly)
     + moved scripts under scripts/, created subordinated Makefile there
     + debian/{dirs,links}: delegated directory/symlink creation to dh_link
     + debian/manpages: delegated manpage installation to dh_installman
     + scripts/Makefile: removed the need of explicitly listing scripts
   * bts: list the available severities in the manpage (Closes: #412186)
   * bts: clarified the meaning of "owner" in the docs (Closes: #403859)
   * checkbashisms: add detection of "${!prefix"-like bashisms, patch from Adam
     D. Barratt (Closes: #409028)
   * dd-list: enable (-b cmdline flag) output of binary package names, patch
     from Frank Küster (Closes: #403207)
   * debcommit: added support for specifying the list of files to commit on
     cmdline, patch from Damyan Ivanov (Closes: #381152)
   * mass-bug: enable (--severity cmdline flag) the specification of the
     severity of the reported bugs, based on a patch from Adam D. Barratt
     (Closes: #386124)
   * tagpending: enable (-c cmdline flag) tagging bugs as confirmed in addition
     to tagging them as pending, based on a patch from Adam D. Barratt
     (Closes: #382884)
   * tagpending: factorized some code for delivering info to the user
   * tagpending: added an extra check to ensure that bugs to be tagged belong
     to the current package
   * uscan: added --force-download to force download when changelog is in sync
     with upstream version, based on a patch from Ian Wienand (Closes: #364116)
 .
   [ Adam D. Barratt ]
   * Joining the team
   * COPYING: update FSF postal address
   * debian/copyright:
     - annotate-output is GPLv2 only
     - whodepends is in the public domain
   * tagpending: modify bug list display code to indicate whether --noact was
     used
   * tagpending: support marking wnpp bugs as pending (Closes: #398178)
   * debc.1: Fix reference to debi (thanks, Frans Pop)
   * {cvs-,}debc.1: Fix reference to installing packages (thanks, Frans Pop)
   * debc: Add support for udebs, based on a patch from Frans Pop
     (Closes: #404952)
   * svnpath: is GPLv2 or later
   * bts:
     - handle new status / maintainer mbox links when downloading bugs
       (Closes: #414200)
     - use the maintainer mbox as the default mbox (i.e. for --mbox and
       cached as $bug.mbox). The "raw" mboxes are now saved as $bug.raw.mbox
     - attempt to download version graphs in "full caching" mode
   * dscverify: Add --nosigcheck (Closes: #397720)
   * uscan: Fix typo in error message when combining --report-status and
     --verbose
   * manpage-alert: New script to locate binaries without corresponding
     manpages (Closes: #414907)
 .
   [ James Vega ]
   * debian/control: Add myself to the Uploaders list.
   * bts: chdir back to the invoking directory before leaving prunecache()
     (Closes: #413793)
   * scripts/Makefile: Specify an include directory when running Perl in order
     to handle the source restructuring.
Files: 
 81c45693eab90c0b8dd5c4261f2b634a 987 devel optional devscripts_2.10.0.dsc
 0b824123da0c685960a82d26dcc59bd1 442758 devel optional devscripts_2.10.0.tar.gz
 e9525bc85703afbeec4ebd1cbff555f3 382598 devel optional devscripts_2.10.0_i386.deb

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