[Debian-med-packaging] ncbi-tools6: How to write a watch file with version encoded in _ftp_ directory

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

I just noticed that there is a new upstream version of ncbi-tools6[1].
The current d/watch file in Git[2] locks as:


version=3
# Too bad uscan doesn't actually honor downloadurlmangle for FTP urls. :-/
# [would use downloadurlmangle="s|$|/ncbi.tar.gz|]
opts="uversionmangle=s|^|6.1.|" \
  ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/(\d{8}[a-z]*)


I wonder whether watch version=4 might provide new means to
automatically detect new versions.

Kind regards

       Andreas.


[1] ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/
[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/ncbi-tools6.git

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