[Pkg-electronics-devel] Reviving the fped package in Debian

[Paul Boddie]

On Sunday 30. June 2019 22.17.57 Paul Boddie wrote:
> On Sunday 30. June 2019 21.56.32 Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> > 
> > uscan is very flexible as long there is some url to look at something,
> > given the old fped git repo isn't alive anymore adding a watch is
> > depending on some new source url.
> 
> The old repository does work, though:
> 
> git://projects.qi-hardware.com/fped.git
> 
> I have cloned it and have been working out of that clone with the newer
> packaging files. But the problem may well be how to obtain release archives
> when they are made available on subpages of the links found on the downloads
> page:
> 
> http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/fped/downloads/

In fact, it may just be easier to target the repository directly using recent 
versions of uscan. The Web page with downloads labels the links with filenames 
that might be usable, such as...

fped_0.0+201205.orig.tar.gz

...but the actual link targets (href attribute values) are fashioned 
differently and are not helpful, such as...

/index.php/p/fped/downloads/84/get/

If uscan can be made to retrieve the labels, then the HTML-based approach is 
still viable. I did look at the documentation and the code for uscan and 
wasn't particularly encouraged.

Of course, the repository would ideally provide tagged versions, but since 
there aren't any tags then it appears that something like this is necessary:

opts="mode=git, pretty=0.1+%cd" git://projects.qi-hardware.com/fped.git HEAD

Anyway, I've submitted a pull request to the GitHub repository:

https://github.com/xiangfu/deb-pkg/pull/1

I would rather not have to do things through GitHub, but let us see whether 
this path leads anywhere first.

Paul