[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#1114977: uscan --dehs failure on GitHub template - Version: 5

[Agustin Martin]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 08:24:03AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.25.19
> Severity: normal
> 
> Conversion of 'splash'[1] watch file to 'Version: 5'.
> 
> Command: uscan --dehs
> 
> Output is bad:
> 
> philwyett at ks-tarkin:~/Development/build/splash$ uscan --dehs 
> Newest version of splash on remote site is 666, local version is 3.11.5
>  => Newer package available from:
>         => https://api.github.com/repos/danieljprice/splash/tarball/refs/tags/v0-666
> uscan warn: In directory ., downloading
>   https://api.github.com/repos/danieljprice/splash/tarball/refs/tags/v0-666 failed: 404 Not Found
> uscan warn: No upstream tarball downloaded. No further processing with mk_origtargz ...
> <dehs>

Hi,

I guess you need to set 'Version-Type: STABLE_VERSION' instead of fiddling
with Matching-Pattern in Version5 debian/watch. If so, this bug report
should be reassigned to splash.

See attached patch.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Agustin


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