[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1010598: Bug#1010598: npm2deb fails to detect github tags for istextorbinary module

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: reassign -1 devscripts
Control: affects -1 npm2deb

On വ്യാ, മേയ് 5 2022 at 02:53:18 വൈകു +0530 
+0530, Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 2022, മേയ് 5 2:16:36 PM IST, Pirate Praveen 
> <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>ൽ എഴുതി
>> Package: npm2deb
>> Version: 0.3.0-10
>> 
>> Usually github urls in watch page is working when there are tags in 
>> the repo. But this seems not working even though the repo has tags 
>> matcing the version in npm registry.
>> 
> This looks like a failure of uscan as manually created watch file 
> also fails.

With the following watch file (commonly used in other github repos),

version=4
opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none" \
 https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags 
.*/archive/.*/v?([\d\.]+).tar.gz

uscan fails

$ uscan --verbose --download-current-version
uscan info: uscan (version 2.22.1) See uscan(1) for help
uscan info: Scan watch files in .
uscan info: Check debian/watch and debian/changelog in .
uscan info: package="node-istextorbinary" version="6.0.0-1" (as seen in 
debian/changelog)
uscan info: package="node-istextorbinary" version="6.0.0" (no 
epoch/revision)
uscan info: ./debian/changelog sets package="node-istextorbinary" 
version="6.0.0"
uscan info: Process watch file at: debian/watch
    package = node-istextorbinary
    version = 6.0.0
    pkg_dir = .
uscan info: opts: searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none
uscan info: line: https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags 
.*/archive/.*/v?([\d\.]+).tar.gz
uscan info: Parsing searchmode=plain
uscan info: Parsing pgpmode=none
uscan info: line: https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags 
.*/archive/.*/v?([\d\.]+).tar.gz
uscan info: Last orig.tar.* tarball version (from debian/changelog): 
6.0.0
uscan info: Download the --download-current-version specified version: 
6.0.0
uscan info: Requesting URL:
   https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags
uscan info: Found the following matching hrefs on the web page (newest 
first):
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v6.0.0.tar.gz (6.0.0) 
index=6.0.0-1 matched with the download version
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.15.0.tar.gz (5.15.0) 
index=5.15.0-1
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.14.0.tar.gz (5.14.0) 
index=5.14.0-1
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.13.0.tar.gz (5.13.0) 
index=5.13.0-1
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.12.0.tar.gz (5.12.0) 
index=5.12.0-1
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.11.0.tar.gz (5.11.0) 
index=5.11.0-1
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.10.0.tar.gz (5.10.0) 
index=5.10.0-1
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.9.0.tar.gz (5.9.0) 
index=5.9.0-1
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.8.0.tar.gz (5.8.0) 
index=5.8.0-1
         <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v5.7.0.tar.gz (5.7.0) 
index=5.7.0-1
uscan info: Looking at $base = 
https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags with
    $filepattern = .*/archive/.*/v?([\d\.]+).tar.gz found
    $newfile     =       <a class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v6.0.0.tar.gz
    $newversion  = 6.0.0
    $lastversion = 6.0.0
uscan info: Matching target for downloadurlmangle: 
https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags      <a 
class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v6.0.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Upstream URL(+tag) to download is identified as    
https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags      <a 
class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v6.0.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Filename (filenamemangled) for downloaded file: 
v6.0.0.tar.gz
uscan: Newest version of node-istextorbinary on remote site is 6.0.0, 
specified download version is 6.0.0
uscan info: Downloading upstream package: v6.0.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Requesting URL:
   https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags      <a 
class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v6.0.0.tar.gz
uscan warn: In directory ., downloading
  https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/tags      <a 
class="Link--muted" 
href="/bevry/istextorbinary/archive/refs/tags/v6.0.0.tar.gz failed: 404 
Not Found
uscan info: Failed to download upstream package: v6.0.0.tar.gz
uscan info: Missing OpenPGP signature.
uscan info: New orig.tar.* tarball version (oversionmangled): 6.0.0
uscan warn: No upstream tarball downloaded. No further processing with 
mk_origtargz ...
uscan info: Scan finished