Launchpad itself

Some times extranious text is included in automatically generated version numbers.

Bug #818215 reported by Benji York
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Launchpad itself
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Bug Description

https://launchpad.net/openafs/1.4 has the release URL pattern set as http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.*/openafs-1.4.*-src.tar.gz . Unfortunately, this causes releases with names like “1.4.14-src” to be automatically generated.

It would be nice if the user could some how specify parts of the patter that should be excluded from the version number. Alternatively they could give a regular expression to use to extract the version number from the URL.

Benji York (benji)
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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chrysn (chrysn) wrote :

adapting uscan for use in launchpad could help here. it has a regexp based syntax and uses just the part within () as the version number.

that would also allow a friendlier answer to question 6635, as watch files allow for an index url to be explicitly specified.

compatibility-wise, either dual operation (the old system for filename style wildcards, uscan based for others) or replacing the wild cards (http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.*/openafs-1.4.*-src.tar.gz would become http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/(?1\.4\..*)/openafs-(1\.4\..*-src).tar.gz, where the original reporter would have to move the -src outside of the parentheses).

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