debian-watch-mangles-debian-version-improperly

The version of this package contains dfsg, ds, or debian, but a misleading upstream version mangling occurs in the debian/watch file. Since the dfsg string is not part of the upstream version and its addition is Debian-specific, the debian/watch file should use the dversionmangle option to remove, instead of adding in uversionmangle, the dfsg before comparing version numbers.

For more information please consult:

https://wiki.debian.org/DEHS

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.112.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit 02df726. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check debian/watch.

Visibility: info

Renamed from:

debian-watch-file-should-dversionmangle-not-uversionmangle

The following 8 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 8 times (in any Lintian version).

There were no overrides.

luajit

opts="uversionmangle=s/$/+dfsg/,uversionmangle=s/-beta/~beta/" http://luajit.org/download.html download/LuaJIT-(.*).tar.gz debian sh debian/repack.stub [debian/watch:7]

lua-orbit

opts="uversionmangle=s/$/+dfsg/" https://github.com/keplerproject/orbit/downloads .*/orbit-([\d\.]+).tar.gz [debian/watch:6]

psutils

opts="uversionmangle=s/^/1./ dversionmangle=s/\.dfsg$//" ftp://ftp.knackered.org/pub/psutils/psutils-p(\d+).tar.gz [debian/watch:3]

ruby-distribution

opts=uversionmangle=s/$/+dfsg/ http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/gemwatch/distribution .*/distribution-(.*).tar.gz [debian/watch:3]

s3ql

opts=pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.asc/,uversionmangle=s/$/+dfsg/ https://github.com/s3ql/s3ql/releases .*/s3ql-(\d\S*)\.tar\.bz2 debian [debian/watch:8]

vulkan-tools

opts="repack,uversionmangle=s/$/+dfsg1/,filenamemangle=s/(?:.*?)?sdk[_-]?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz/vulkan-tools-$1.tar.gz/" https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tools/tags (?:.*?/)sdk[_-](\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz [debian/watch:4]

zeek

opts=pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.asc/,dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg\d*$//,uversionmangle=s/$/+ds1/;s/-rc/~rc/ https://download.zeek.org (?:bro|zeek)-(\d.*)-minimal\.tar\.gz [debian/watch:5]

zeekctl

opts=pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.asc/,dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg\d*$//,uversionmangle=s/$/+ds1/ https://download.zeek.org/ (?:bro|zeek)ctl-(\d.*)\.tar\.gz [debian/watch:5]