[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#875252: torbirdy: debian/watch looks at a page that has no upstream tarball/XPI

[u]

Hi again,

> Source: torbirdy
> Version: 0.2.2-1

> Before commit ff02a45 we were looking in
> https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbirdy/, where Torbirdy upstream
> release are distributed. And then uscan would repack the XPI into
> a tarball for us (I guess :)
> That commit made debian/watch look at
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbirdy.git/refs instead. There was
> probably a good reason for it back then (e.g. simplicity!), but
> currently that cgit page has no tarball/XPI download option, so since
> a while DMD, tracker & friends have been complaining about
> debian/watch and worse, they were not able to make it obvious to us
> that 0.2.3 wanted to be packaged.

Hm, I verified why I modified this. And it turns out I did that because
I did not want to unpack and repack an XPI (previously) while I can use
a Git branch with a PGP signature.

I actually remember that this worked (otherwise I would not have made
that commit with help of Ximin), but it does currently not work anymore.
So I should probably revert this, and then debian/watch will stop
complaining while I can continue to use the Git tree for packaging
instead of the XPI.

> Reverting that commit seems to fix the problem:
> 
>   $ uscan --no-download 
>   uscan: Newest version of torbirdy on remote site is 0.2.3, local version is 0.2.2
>   uscan:    => Newer package available from
>         https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbirdy/torbirdy-0.2.3.xpi
> 
> But I don't know what other updates in the packaging relied on that
> commit, so I won't dare pushing the revert to Vcs-Git.

I prefer to be made aware of it instead in any case.

Cheers!
u.


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