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Hi,

this is the current debian/watch file for proftp, it is not in the
archive yet, just on salsa:

version=4 opts=repack,compression=gz,repacksuffix=+dfsg,dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg//,\ uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha)\d*)$/$1~$2/,\ pgpsigurlmangle=s@archive/refs/tags@releases/download@;\ s@v([^\/]+)\.tar\.gz@v$1/proftpd-$1\.tar\.gz@;\
s/$/.asc/ \
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/tags .*/v?(\d\S+)\.tar\.gz

According to [1] the entry "uversionmangle=..." should handle the case
that there could be beta/rc versions, which should be ignored. When
doing an uscan now it downloads happily version v1.3.8rc1, which is
available from upstream, instead of the expected 1.3.7b.

What am I doing wrong?

Hilmar

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch#Common_mistakes
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:01 PM Hilmar Preuße wrote:

uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha)\d*)$/$1~$2/,\

...

According to [1] the entry "uversionmangle=..." should handle the case
that there could be beta/rc versions, which should be ignored. When
doing an uscan now it downloads happily version v1.3.8rc1, which is
available from upstream, instead of the expected 1.3.7b.

Using uscan --verbose helps diagnose the issue:

uversionmangle just adds the ~ character into rc versions in the right
place, it doesn't make the matched versions disappear. Since there is
no v1.3.8 tag yet, the latest tag v1.3.8rc1 gets assigned version
1.3.8~rc1, which is later than the 1.3.7b version.

There are two ways to make the rc versions disappear:

Make the version matching regex ignore them.

Make uversionmangle change their versions so they are earlier than all
the other versions.

Personally I would do neither of these and instead start uploading
beta/rc versions to experimental, you can get valuable feedback from
CI/users this way that can then feed back upstream to fix any issues
before the final release.

PS: I suggest using mode=git, because the GitHub tags pages are
paginated, cutting off older versions.

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https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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On 6/25/21 3:32 AM, Paul Wise wrote:

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:01 PM Hilmar Preuße wrote:

Hi,

Sorry for late Reply!

uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha)\d*)$/$1~$2/,\

...

According to [1] the entry "uversionmangle=..." should handle the case
that there could be beta/rc versions, which should be ignored. When
doing an uscan now it downloads happily version v1.3.8rc1, which is
available from upstream, instead of the expected 1.3.7b.

Using uscan --verbose helps diagnose the issue:

It is on:

https://pastebin.com/ncjU2fpU

uversionmangle just adds the ~ character into rc versions in the right
place, it doesn't make the matched versions disappear. Since there is
no v1.3.8 tag yet, the latest tag v1.3.8rc1 gets assigned version
1.3.8~rc1, which is later than the 1.3.7b version.

OK, understood.

There are two ways to make the rc versions disappear:

Make the version matching regex ignore them.

I guess this will be the pattern in the last line:

https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/tags .*/v?(\d\S+)\.tar\.gz

I'll try to fix it.

Make uversionmangle change their versions so they are earlier than all
the other versions.

Not sure how to do that.

Personally I would do neither of these and instead start uploading
beta/rc versions to experimental, you can get valuable feedback from
CI/users this way that can then feed back upstream to fix any issues
before the final release.

Currently I'm busy enough to care about unstable, stable etc. Packaging experimental is a very good idea but currently far out of my scope.

Hilmar

PS: I suggest using mode=git, because the GitHub tags pages are
paginated, cutting off older versions.

Failed to use it correctly, will have a look at that later. Anway the
pastebin shows that uscan goes far enough into the past. Thanks for the
hint!

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