[Dehs-devel] libxml-sax-perl: New upstream version available

[Raphael Geissert]

On 29/02/2008, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> (This was addressed To:libxml-sax-perl at packages.qa.debian.org
>  with X-PTS-Keyword: summary, and I happen to be subscribed
>  to that by chance. I'm not sure why this never reached
>  pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org, the package maintainer

Because by default the 'summary' emails aren't delivered to the
maintainer. Only to addresses subscribed to it.

>  address. Possibly there's a spam filter active in the mailman
>  configuration? CC'ing the list and the list maintainer.)
>
>  On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:11:23AM +0000, Debian External Health System wrote:
>
>  > The Debian External Health System (a.k.a. DEHS) has found a new upstream version
>  >  of the package libxml-sax-perl in the unstable distribution.
>  > The current package version is 0.16+dfsg-2 and latest by upstream is 0.16+dfsg.
>  >
>  > If you are the maintainer or a co-maintainer of the package
>  >  please consider updating the package.
>  >
>  > If you believe this message can be improved in any way don't hesitate to contact me
>  >  by replying to this message.
>  > Note that the latest version by upstream is found thanks to the debian/watch file
>  >  provided by your package, in case this message is a false positive please review
>  >  the watch file before reporting.
>  >
>  > Sincerely,
>  > Raphael Geissert
>
>  Hi Raphael,
>
>  there's obviously something wrong with this. Maybe the debian/repack.pl
>  part confuses DEHS?

No it doesn't.

>
>  % uscan --verbose --report
>  -- Scanning for watchfiles in .
>  -- Found watchfile in ./debian
>  -- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
>    opts="uversionmangle=s/(?=$)/+dfsg/"  http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-SAX .*/XML-SAX-([\d].*)\.tar\.gz  debian debian/repack.pl
>  -- Found the following matching hrefs:
>      /CPAN/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/XML-SAX-0.16.tar.gz
>  Newest version on remote site is 0.16+dfsg, local version is 0.16+dfsg
>   => Package is up to date
>  -- Scan finished

Please read the section "Debian repackaging (a.k.a. trust what uscan
says)" from DEHS' wiki page[1]. Although it is a bug please consider
what the wiki says about upstream's tarball not really being dfsg.

[1]http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS

>
>  Cheers,
>
> --
>  Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
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