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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Eriberto,

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:01:56AM -0200, Eriberto wrote:
> 
> Please, try the folowing structure:
> 
> version=4
> opts="passive,uversionmangle=s|^|6.1.|" \
> http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/ (\d{8}[a-z]*)/
> 
> I hope this help.

Thanks, this was extremly helpful (after adding downloadurlmangle=s/$/ncbi.tar.gz/).

One remaining question:  I frequently observed that uscan gave up with something
like in this case:

...
uscan info: Requesting URL:
   http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/20160908/ncbi.tar.gz
uscan warn: In directory ., downloading
  http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/20160908/ncbi.tar.gz failed: 500 read timeout
uscan info: Failed to download upstream package: 20160908
...

The solution in this case is always to simply use the download URL with wget.

Am I the only one who observes that uscan is way less robust in the actual
download process than wget or is this simply a bug in uscan?

Kind regards

    Andreas.

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