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6 uscan - scan/watch upstream sources for new releases of software
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9 uscan [options] [path]
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12 For basic usage, uscan is executed without any arguments from the root
13 of the Debianized source tree where you see the debian/ directory, or a
14 directory containing multiple source trees.
15 Unless --watchfile is given, uscan looks recursively for valid source
17 trees starting from the current directory (see the below section
18 "Directory name checking" for details).
19 For each valid source tree found, typically the following happens:
21 • uscan reads the first entry in debian/changelog to determine the
23 source package name <spkg> and the last upstream version.
24 • uscan process the watch lines debian/watch from the top to the
26 bottom in a single pass.
27 • uscan downloads a web page from the specified URL in
29 debian/watch.
30 • uscan extracts hrefs pointing to the upstream tarball(s) from
32 the web page using the specified matching-pattern in
33 debian/watch.
34 • uscan downloads the upstream tarball with the highest version
36 newer than the last upstream version.
37 • uscan saves the downloaded tarball to the parent ../ directory:
39 ../<upkg>-<uversion>.tar.gz
40 • uscan invokes mk-origtargz to create the source tarball:
42 ../<spkg>_<oversion>.orig.tar.gz
43 • For a multiple upstream tarball (MUT) package, the
45 secondary upstream tarball will instead be named
46 ../<spkg>_<oversion>.orig-<component>.tar.gz.
47 • Repeat until all lines in debian/watch are processed.
49 • uscan invokes uupdate to create the Debianized source tree:
51 ../<spkg>-<oversion>/*
52 Please note the following.
54 • For simplicity, the compression method used in examples is gzip
56 with .gz suffix. Other methods such as xz, bzip2, and lzma with
57 corresponding xz, bz2, and lzma suffixes may also be used.
58 • The new version=4 enables handling of multiple upstream tarball
60 (MUT) packages but this is a rare case for Debian packaging. For a
61 single upstream tarball package, there is only one watch line and
62 no ../<spkg>_<oversion>.orig-<component>.tar.gz .
63 • uscan with the --verbose option produces a human readable report of
65 uscan's execution.
66 • uscan with the --debug option produces a human readable report of
68 uscan's execution including internal variable states.
69 • uscan with the --extra-debug option produces a human readable
71 report of uscan's execution including internal variable states and
72 remote content during "search" step.
73 • uscan with the --dehs option produces an upstream package status
75 report in XML format for other programs such as the Debian External
76 Health System.
77 • The primary objective of uscan is to help identify if the latest
79 version upstream tarball is used or not; and to download the latest
80 upstream tarball. The ordering of versions is decided by dpkg
81 --compare-versions.
82 • uscan with the --safe option limits the functionality of uscan to
84 its primary objective. Both the repacking of downloaded files and
85 updating of the source tree are skipped to avoid running unsafe
86 scripts. This also changes the default to --no-download and
87 --skip-signature.
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90 The current version 4 format of debian/watch can be summarized as
91 follows:
92 • Leading spaces and tabs are dropped.
94 • Empty lines are dropped.
96 • A line started by # (hash) is a comment line and dropped.
98 • A single \ (back slash) at the end of a line is dropped and the
100 next line is concatenated after removing leading spaces and tabs.
101 The concatenated line is parsed as a single line. (The existence or
102 non-existence of the space before the tailing single \ is
103 significant.)
104 • The first non-comment line is:
106 version=4
108 This is a required line and the recommended version number.
110 If you use "version=3" instead here, some features may not work as
112 documented here. See "HISTORY AND UPGRADING".
113 • The following non-comment lines (watch lines) specify the rules for
115 the selection of the candidate upstream tarball URLs and are in one
116 of the following three formats:
117 • opts=" ... " http://URL matching-pattern [version [script]]
119 • http://URL matching-pattern [version [script]]
121 • opts=" ... "
123 Here,
125 • opts=" ... " specifies the behavior of uscan. See "WATCH FILE
127 OPTIONS".
128 • http://URL specifies the web page where upstream publishes the
130 link to the latest source archive.
131 • https://URL may also be used, as may
133 • ftp://URL
135 • Some parts of URL may be in the regex match pattern
137 surrounded between ( and ) such as /foo/bar-([\.\d]+)/.
138 (If multiple directories match, the highest version is
139 picked.) Otherwise, the URL is taken as verbatim.
140 • matching-pattern specifies the full string matching pattern for
142 hrefs in the web page. See "WATCH FILE EXAMPLES".
143 • All matching parts in ( and ) are concatenated with .
145 (period) to form the upstream version.
146 • If the hrefs do not contain directories, you can combine
148 this with the previous entry. I.e., http://URL/matching-
149 pattern .
150 • version restricts the upstream tarball which may be downloaded.
152 The newest available version is chosen in each case.
153 • debian (default) requires the downloading upstream tarball
155 to be newer than the version obtained from
156 debian/changelog.
157 • version-number such as 12.5 requires the upstream tarball
159 to be newer than the version-number.
160 • same requires the downloaded version of the secondary
162 tarballs to be exactly the same as the one for the first
163 upstream tarball downloaded. (Useful only for MUT)
164 • previous restricts the version of the signature file. (Used
166 with pgpmode=previous)
167 • ignore does not restrict the version of the secondary
169 tarballs. (Maybe useful for MUT)
170 • group requires the downloading upstream tarball to be newer
172 than the version obtained from debian/changelog. Package
173 version is the concatenation of all "group" upstream
174 version.
175 • checksum requires the downloading upstream tarball to be
177 newer than the version obtained from debian/changelog.
178 Package version is the concatenation of the version of the
179 main tarball, followed by a checksum of all the tarballs
180 using the "checksum" version system. At least the main
181 upstream source has to be declared as "group".
182 • script is executed at the end of uscan execution with
184 appropriate arguments provided by uscan (default: no action).
185 • The typical Debian package is a non-native package made
187 from one upstream tarball. Only a single line of the watch
188 line in one of the first two formats is usually used with
189 its version set to debian and script set to uupdate.
190 • A native package should not specify script.
192 • A multiple upstream tarball (MUT) package should specify
194 uupdate as script in the last watch line and should skip
195 specifying script in the rest of the watch lines.
196 • The last format of the watch line is useful to set the
198 persistent parameters: user-agent, compression. If this format
199 is used, this must be followed by the URL defining watch
200 line(s).
201 • [ and ] in the above format are there to mark the optional
203 parts and should not be typed.
204 There are a few special strings which are substituted by uscan to make
206 it easy to write the watch file.
207 @PACKAGE@
209 This is substituted with the source package name found in the first
210 line of the debian/changelog file.
211 @ANY_VERSION@
213 This is substituted by the legal upstream version regex
214 (capturing).
215 [-_]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*)
217 @ARCHIVE_EXT@
219 This is substituted by the typical archive file extension regex
220 (non-capturing).
221 (?i)\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip|tgz|tbz|txz)
223 @SIGNATURE_EXT@
225 This is substituted by the typical signature file extension regex
226 (non-capturing).
227 (?i)\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip|tgz|tbz|txz)\.(?:asc|pgp|gpg|sig|sign)
229 @DEB_EXT@
231 This is substituted by the typical Debian extension regexp
232 (capturing).
233 [\+~](debian|dfsg|ds|deb)(\.)?(\d+)?$
235 Some file extensions are not included in the above intentionally to
237 avoid false positives. You can still set such file extension patterns
238 manually.
239
241 uscan reads the watch options specified in opts=" ... " to customize
242 its behavior. Multiple options option1, option2, option3, ... can be
243 set as opts="option1, option2, option3, ... " . The double quotes
244 are necessary if options contain any spaces.
245 Unless otherwise noted as persistent, most options are valid only
247 within their containing watch line.
248 The available watch options are:
250 component=component
252 Set the name of the secondary source tarball as
253 <spkg>_<oversion>.orig-<component>.tar.gz for a MUT package.
254 ctype=component-type
256 Set the type of component (only "nodejs" and "perl" are available
257 for now). This will help uscan to find current version if
258 component version is ignored.
259 When using ctype=nodejs, uscan tries to find a version in
261 "package.json", when using ctype=perl, uscan tries to find a
262 version in "META.json". If a version is found, it is used as
263 current version for this component, regardless version found in
264 Debian version string. This permits a better change detection when
265 using ignore or checksum as Debian version.
266 compression=method
268 Set the compression method when the tarball is repacked
269 (persistent).
270 Available method values are what mk-origtargz supports, so xz, gzip
272 (alias gz), bzip2 (alias bz2), lzma, default. The default method is
273 currently xz. When uscan is launched in a debian source repository
274 which format is "1.0" or undefined, the method switches to gzip.
275 Please note the repacking of the upstream tarballs by mk-origtargz
277 happens only if one of the following conditions is satisfied:
278 • USCAN_REPACK is set in the devscript configuration. See
280 "DEVSCRIPT CONFIGURATION VARIABLES".
281 • --repack is set on the commandline. See <COMMANDLINE OPTIONS>.
283 • repack is set in the watch line as opts="repack,...".
285 • The upstream archive is of zip type including jar, xpi, ...
287 • Files-Excluded or Files-Excluded-component stanzas are set in
289 debian/copyright to make mk-origtargz invoked from uscan remove
290 files from the upstream tarball and repack it. See "COPYRIGHT
291 FILE EXAMPLES" and mk-origtargz(1).
292 repack
294 Force repacking of the upstream tarball using the compression
295 method.
296 repacksuffix=suffix
298 Add suffix to the Debian package upstream version only when the
299 source tarball is repackaged. This rule should be used only for a
300 single upstream tarball package.
301 mode=mode
303 Set the archive download mode.
304 LWP This mode is the default one which downloads the specified
306 tarball from the archive URL on the web. Automatically
307 internal mode value is updated to either http or ftp by URL.
308 git This mode accesses the upstream git archive directly with the
310 git command and packs the source tree with the specified tag
311 via matching-pattern into spkg-version.tar.xz.
312 If the upstream publishes the released tarball via its web
314 interface, please use it instead of using this mode. This mode
315 is the last resort method.
316 For git mode, matching-pattern specifies the full string
318 matching pattern for tags instead of hrefs. If matching-pattern
319 is set to refs/tags/tag-matching-pattern, uscan downloads
320 source from the refs/tags/matched-tag of the git repository.
321 The upstream version is extracted from concatenating the
322 matched parts in ( ... ) with . . See "WATCH FILE EXAMPLES".
323 If matching-pattern is set to HEAD, uscan downloads source from
325 the HEAD of the git repository and the pertinent version is
326 automatically generated with the date and hash of the HEAD of
327 the git repository.
328 If matching-pattern is set to refs/heads/branch, uscan
330 downloads source from the named branch of the git repository.
331 The local repository is temporarily created as a bare git
333 repository directory under the destination directory where the
334 downloaded archive is generated. This is normally erased after
335 the uscan execution. This local repository is kept if --debug
336 option is used.
337 If the current directory is a git repository and the searched
339 repository is listed among the registered "remotes", then uscan
340 will use it instead of cloning separately. The only local
341 change is that uscan will run a "fetch" command to refresh the
342 repository.
343 svn This mode accesses the upstream Subversion archive directly
345 with the svn command and packs the source tree.
346 For svn mode, matching-pattern specifies the full string
348 matching pattern for directories under Subversion repository
349 directory, specified via URL. The upstream version is
350 extracted from concatenating the matched parts in ( ... ) with
351 . .
352 If matching-pattern is set to HEAD, uscan downloads the latest
354 source tree of the URL. The upstream version is then
355 constructed by appending the last revision of the URL to
356 0.0~svn.
357 As commit signing is not possible with Subversion, the default
359 pgpmode is set to none when mode=svn. Settings of pgpmode other
360 than default and none are reported as errors.
361 pretty=rule
363 Set the upstream version string to an arbitrary format as an
364 optional opts argument when the matching-pattern is HEAD or
365 heads/branch for git mode. For the exact syntax, see the git-log
366 manpage under tformat. The default is pretty=0.0~git%cd.%h. No
367 uversionmangle rules is applicable for this case.
368 When pretty=describe is used, the upstream version string is the
370 output of the "git describe --tags | sed s/-/./g" command instead.
371 For example, if the commit is the 5-th after the last tag v2.17.12
372 and its short hash is ged992511, then the string is
373 v2.17.12.5.ged992511 . For this case, it is good idea to add
374 uversionmangle=s/^/0.0~/ or uversionmangle=s/^v// to make the
375 upstream version string compatible with Debian.
376 uversionmangle=s/^v// may work as well. Please note that in order
377 for pretty=describe to function well, upstream need to avoid
378 tagging with random alphabetic tags.
379 The pretty=describe forces to set gitmode=full to make a full local
381 clone of the repository automatically.
382 date=rule
384 Set the date string used by the pretty option to an arbitrary
385 format as an optional opts argument when the matching-pattern is
386 HEAD or heads/branch for git mode. For the exact syntax, see the
387 strftime manpage. The default is date=%Y%m%d.
388 gitexport=mode
390 Set the git archive export operation mode. The default is
391 gitexport=default. Set this to gitexport=all to include all files
392 in the .orig.tar archive, ignoring any export-ignore git attributes
393 defined by the upstream.
394 This option is valid only in git mode.
396 gitmode=mode
398 Set the git clone operation mode. The default is gitmode=shallow.
399 For some dumb git server, you may need to manually set gitmode=full
400 to force full clone operation.
401 If the current directory is a git repository and the searched
403 repository is listed among the registered "remotes", then uscan
404 will use it instead of cloning separately.
405 pgpmode=mode
407 Set the PGP/GPG signature verification mode.
408 auto
410 uscan checks possible URLs for the signature file and
411 autogenerates a pgpsigurlmangle rule to use it.
412 default
414 Use pgpsigurlmangle=rules to generate the candidate upstream
415 signature file URL string from the upstream tarball URL.
416 (default)
417 If the specified pgpsigurlmangle is missing, uscan checks
419 possible URLs for the signature file and suggests adding a
420 pgpsigurlmangle rule.
421 mangle
423 Use pgpsigurlmangle=rules to generate the candidate upstream
424 signature file URL string from the upstream tarball URL.
425 next
427 Verify this downloaded tarball file with the signature file
428 specified in the next watch line. The next watch line must be
429 pgpmode=previous. Otherwise, no verification occurs.
430 previous
432 Verify the downloaded tarball file specified in the previous
433 watch line with this signature file. The previous watch line
434 must be pgpmode=next.
435 self
437 Verify the downloaded file foo.ext with its self signature and
438 extract its content tarball file as foo.
439 gittag
441 Verify tag signature if mode=git.
442 none
444 No signature available. (No warning.)
445 searchmode=mode
447 Set the parsing search mode.
448 html (default): search pattern in "href" parameter of <a> HTML tags
450 plain: search pattern in the full page
451 This is useful if page content is not HTML but JSON. Example
452 with npmjs.com:
453 version=4
455 opts="searchmode=plain" \
456 https://registry.npmjs.org/aes-js \
457 https://registry.npmjs.org/aes-js/-/aes-js-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@
458 decompress
460 Decompress compressed archive before the pgp/gpg signature
461 verification.
462 bare
464 Disable all site specific special case code such as URL redirector
465 uses and page content alterations. (persistent)
466 user-agent=user-agent-string
468 Set the user-agent string used to contact the HTTP(S) server as
469 user-agent-string. (persistent)
470 user-agent option should be specified by itself in the watch line
472 without URL, to allow using semicolons and commas in it.
473 pasv, passive
475 Use PASV mode for the FTP connection.
476 If PASV mode is required due to the client side network
478 environment, set uscan to use PASV mode via "COMMANDLINE OPTIONS"
479 or "DEVSCRIPT CONFIGURATION VARIABLES" instead.
480 active, nopasv
482 Don't use PASV mode for the FTP connection.
483 unzipopt=options
485 Add the extra options to use with the unzip command, such as -a,
486 -aa, and -b, when executed by mk-origtargz.
487 dversionmangle=rules
489 Normalize the last upstream version string found in
490 debian/changelog to compare it to the available upstream tarball
491 version. Removal of the Debian specific suffix such as
492 s/@DEB_EXT@// is usually done here.
493 You can also use dversionmangle=auto, this is exactly the same than
495 dversionmangle=s/@DEB_EXT@//
496 dirversionmangle=rules
498 Normalize the directory path string matching the regex in a set of
499 parentheses of http://URL as the sortable version index string.
500 This is used as the directory path sorting index only.
501 Substitution such as s/PRE/~pre/; s/RC/~rc/ may help.
503 pagemangle=rules
505 Normalize the downloaded web page string. (Don't use this unless
506 this is absolutely needed. Generally, g flag is required for these
507 rules.)
508 This is handy if you wish to access Amazon AWS or Subversion
510 repositories in which <a href="..."> is not used.
511 uversionmangle=rules
513 Normalize the candidate upstream version strings extracted from
514 hrefs in the source of the web page. This is used as the version
515 sorting index when selecting the latest upstream version.
516 Substitution such as s/PRE/~pre/; s/RC/~rc/ may help.
518 versionmangle=rules
520 Syntactic shorthand for uversionmangle=rules, dversionmangle=rules
521 hrefdecode=percent-encoding
523 Convert the selected upstream tarball href string from the percent-
524 encoded hexadecimal string to the decoded normal URL string for
525 obfuscated web sites. Only percent-encoding is available and it is
526 decoded with s/%([A-Fa-f\d]{2})/chr hex $1/eg.
527 downloadurlmangle=rules
529 Convert the selected upstream tarball href string into the
530 accessible URL for obfuscated web sites. This is run after
531 hrefdecode.
532 filenamemangle=rules
534 Generate the upstream tarball filename from the selected href
535 string if matching-pattern can extract the latest upstream version
536 <uversion> from the selected href string. Otherwise, generate the
537 upstream tarball filename from its full URL string and set the
538 missing <uversion> from the generated upstream tarball filename.
539 Without this option, the default upstream tarball filename is
541 generated by taking the last component of the URL and removing
542 everything after any '?' or '#'.
543 pgpsigurlmangle=rules
545 Generate the candidate upstream signature file URL string from the
546 upstream tarball URL.
547 oversionmangle=rules
549 Generate the version string <oversion> of the source tarball
550 <spkg>_<oversion>.orig.tar.gz from <uversion>. This should be used
551 to add a suffix such as +dfsg1 to a MUT package.
552 Here, the mangling rules apply the rules to the pertinent string.
554 Multiple rules can be specified in a mangling rule string by making a
555 concatenated string of each mangling rule separated by ; (semicolon).
556 Each mangling rule cannot contain ; (semicolon), , (comma), or "
558 (double quote).
559 Each mangling rule behaves as if a Perl command "$string =~ rule" is
561 executed. There are some notable details.
562 • rule may only use the s, tr, and y operations.
564 s/regex/replacement/options
566 Regex pattern match and replace the target string. Only the g,
567 i and x flags are available. Use the $1 syntax for back
568 references (No \1 syntax). Code execution is not allowed (i.e.
569 no (?{}) or (??{}) constructs).
570 y/source/dest/ or tr/source/dest/
572 Transliterate the characters in the target string.
573
575 uscan reads the first entry in debian/changelog to determine the source
576 package name and the last upstream version.
577 For example, if the first entry of debian/changelog is:
579 • bar (3:2.03+dfsg1-4) unstable; urgency=low
581 then, the source package name is bar and the last Debian package
583 version is 3:2.03+dfsg1-4.
584 The last upstream version is normalized to 2.03+dfsg1 by removing the
586 epoch and the Debian revision.
587 If the dversionmangle rule exists, the last upstream version is further
589 normalized by applying this rule to it. For example, if the last
590 upstream version is 2.03+dfsg1 indicating the source tarball is
591 repackaged, the suffix +dfsg1 is removed by the string substitution
592 s/\+dfsg\d*$// to make the (dversionmangled) last upstream version 2.03
593 and it is compared to the candidate upstream tarball versions such as
594 2.03, 2.04, ... found in the remote site. Thus, set this rule as:
595 • opts="dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg\d*$//"
597 uscan downloads a web page from http://URL specified in debian/watch.
599 • If the directory name part of URL has no parentheses, ( and ), it
601 is taken as verbatim.
602 • If the directory name part of URL has parentheses, ( and ), then
604 uscan recursively searches all possible directories to find a page
605 for the newest version. If the dirversionmangle rule exists, the
606 generated sorting index is used to find the newest version. If a
607 specific version is specified for the download, the matching
608 version string has priority over the newest version.
609 For example, this http://URL may be specified as:
611 • http://www.example.org/([\d\.]+)/
613 Please note the trailing / in the above to make ([\d\.]+) as the
615 directory.
616 If the pagemangle rule exists, the whole downloaded web page as a
618 string is normalized by applying this rule to it. This is very
619 powerful tool and needs to be used with caution. If other mangling
620 rules can be used to address your objective, do not use this rule.
621 The downloaded web page is scanned for hrefs defined in the <a href="
623 ... "> tag to locate the candidate upstream tarball hrefs. These
624 candidate upstream tarball hrefs are matched by the Perl regex pattern
625 matching-pattern such as DL-(?:[\d\.]+?)/foo-(.+)\.tar\.gz to narrow
626 down the candidates. This pattern match needs to be anchored at the
627 beginning and the end. For example, candidate hrefs may be:
628 • DL-2.02/foo-2.02.tar.gz
630 • DL-2.03/foo-2.03.tar.gz
632 • DL-2.04/foo-2.04.tar.gz
634 Here the matching string of (.+) in matching-pattern is considered as
636 the candidate upstream version. If there are multiple matching strings
637 of capturing patterns in matching-pattern, they are all concatenated
638 with . (period) to form the candidate upstream version. Make sure to
639 use the non-capturing regex such as (?:[\d\.]+?) instead for the
640 variable text matching part unrelated to the version.
641 Then, the candidate upstream versions are:
643 • 2.02
645 • 2.03
647 • 2.04
649 The downloaded tarball filename is basically set to the same as the
651 filename in the remote URL of the selected href.
652 If the uversionmangle rule exists, the candidate upstream versions are
654 normalized by applying this rule to them. (This rule may be useful if
655 the upstream version scheme doesn't sort correctly to identify the
656 newest version.)
657 The upstream tarball href corresponding to the newest (uversionmangled)
659 candidate upstream version newer than the (dversionmangled) last
660 upstream version is selected.
661 If multiple upstream tarball hrefs corresponding to a single version
663 with different extensions exist, the highest compression one is chosen.
664 (Priority: tar.xz > tar.lzma > tar.bz2 > tar.gz.)
665 If the selected upstream tarball href is the relative URL, it is
667 converted to the absolute URL using the base URL of the web page. If
668 the <base href=" ... "> tag exists in the web page, the selected
669 upstream tarball href is converted to the absolute URL using the
670 specified base URL in the base tag, instead.
671 If the downloadurlmangle rule exists, the selected upstream tarball
673 href is normalized by applying this rule to it. (This is useful for
674 some sites with the obfuscated download URL.)
675 If the filenamemangle rule exists, the downloaded tarball filename is
677 generated by applying this rule to the selected href if matching-
678 pattern can extract the latest upstream version <uversion> from the
679 selected href string. Otherwise, generate the upstream tarball filename
680 from its full URL string and set the missing <uversion> from the
681 generated upstream tarball filename.
682 Without the filenamemangle rule, the default upstream tarball filename
684 is generated by taking the last component of the URL and removing
685 everything after any '?' or '#'.
686 uscan downloads the selected upstream tarball to the parent ../
688 directory. For example, the downloaded file may be:
689 • ../foo-2.04.tar.gz
691 Let's call this downloaded version 2.04 in the above example
693 generically as <uversion> in the following.
694 If the pgpsigurlmangle rule exists, the upstream signature file URL is
696 generated by applying this rule to the (downloadurlmangled) selected
697 upstream tarball href and the signature file is tried to be downloaded
698 from it.
699 If the pgpsigurlmangle rule doesn't exist, uscan warns user if the
701 matching upstream signature file is available from the same URL with
702 their filename being suffixed by the 5 common suffix asc, gpg, pgp, sig
703 and sign. (You can avoid this warning by setting pgpmode=none.)
704 If the signature file is downloaded, the downloaded upstream tarball is
706 checked for its authenticity against the downloaded signature file
707 using the armored keyring debian/upstream/signing-key.asc (see
708 "KEYRING FILE EXAMPLES"). If its signature is not valid, or not made
709 by one of the listed keys, uscan will report an error.
710 If the oversionmangle rule exists, the source tarball version oversion
712 is generated from the downloaded upstream version uversion by applying
713 this rule. This rule is useful to add suffix such as +dfsg1 to the
714 version of all the source packages of the MUT package for which the
715 repacksuffix mechanism doesn't work.
716 uscan invokes mk-origtargz to create the source tarball properly named
718 for the source package with .orig. (or .orig-<component>. for the
719 secondary tarballs) in its filename.
720 case A: packaging of the upstream tarball as is
722 mk-origtargz creates a symlink ../bar_<oversion>.orig.tar.gz linked
723 to the downloaded local upstream tarball. Here, bar is the source
724 package name found in debian/changelog. The generated symlink may
725 be:
726 • ../bar_2.04.orig.tar.gz -> foo-2.04.tar.gz (as is)
728 Usually, there is no need to set up opts="dversionmangle= ... " for
730 this case.
731 case B: packaging of the upstream tarball after removing non-DFSG files
733 mk-origtargz checks the filename glob of the Files-Excluded stanza
734 in the first section of debian/copyright, removes matching files to
735 create a repacked upstream tarball. Normally, the repacked
736 upstream tarball is renamed with suffix to
737 ../bar_<oversion><suffix>.orig.tar.gz using the repacksuffix option
738 for the single upstream package. Here <oversion> is updated to
739 be <oversion><suffix>.
740 The removal of files is required if files are not DFSG-compliant.
742 For such case, +dfsg1 is used as suffix.
743 So the combined options are set as
745 opts="dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg\d*$// ,repacksuffix=+dfsg1", instead.
746 For example, the repacked upstream tarball may be:
748 • ../bar_2.04+dfsg1.orig.tar.gz (repackaged)
750 uscan normally invokes "uupdate --find --upstream-version oversion "
752 for the version=4 watch file.
753 Please note that --find option is used here since mk-origtargz has been
755 invoked to make *.orig.tar.gz file already. uscan picks bar from
756 debian/changelog.
757 It creates the new upstream source tree under the ../bar-<oversion>
759 directory and Debianize it leveraging the last package contents.
760
762 When writing the watch file, you should rely on the latest upstream
763 source announcement web page. You should not try to second guess the
764 upstream archive structure if possible. Here are the typical
765 debian/watch files.
766 Please note that executing uscan with -v or -vv reveals what exactly
768 happens internally.
769 The existence and non-existence of a space the before tailing \ (back
771 slash) are significant.
772 Some undocumented shorter configuration strings are used in the below
774 EXAMPLES to help you with typing. These are intentional ones. uscan
775 is written to accept such common sense abbreviations but don't push the
776 limit.
777 HTTP site (basic)
779 Here is an example for the basic single upstream tarball.
780 version=4
782 http://example.com/~user/release/foo.html \
783 files/foo-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
784 Or using the special strings:
786 version=4
788 http://example.com/~user/release/@PACKAGE@.html \
789 files/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ debian uupdate
790 For the upstream source package foo-2.0.tar.gz, this watch file
792 downloads and creates the Debian orig.tar file foo_2.0.orig.tar.gz.
793 HTTP site (pgpsigurlmangle)
795 Here is an example for the basic single upstream tarball with the
796 matching signature file in the same file path.
797 version=4
799 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%$%.asc%" http://example.com/release/@PACKAGE@.html \
800 files/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ debian uupdate
801 For the upstream source package foo-2.0.tar.gz and the upstream
803 signature file foo-2.0.tar.gz.asc, this watch file downloads these
804 files, verifies the authenticity using the keyring
805 debian/upstream/signing-key.asc and creates the Debian orig.tar file
806 foo_2.0.orig.tar.gz.
807 Here is another example for the basic single upstream tarball with the
809 matching signature file on decompressed tarball in the same file path.
810 version=4
812 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%@ARCHIVE_EXT@$%.asc%,decompress" \
813 http://example.com/release/@PACKAGE@.html \
814 files/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ debian uupdate
815 For the upstream source package foo-2.0.tar.gz and the upstream
817 signature file foo-2.0.tar.asc, this watch file downloads these files,
818 verifies the authenticity using the keyring
819 debian/upstream/signing-key.asc and creates the Debian orig.tar file
820 foo_2.0.orig.tar.gz.
821 HTTP site (pgpmode=next/previous)
823 Here is an example for the basic single upstream tarball with the
824 matching signature file in the unrelated file path.
825 version=4
827 opts="pgpmode=next" http://example.com/release/@PACKAGE@.html \
828 files/(?:\d+)/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ debian
829 opts="pgpmode=previous" http://example.com/release/@PACKAGE@.html \
830 files/(?:\d+)/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@SIGNATURE_EXT@ previous uupdate
831 (?:\d+) part can be any random value. The tarball file can have 53,
833 while the signature file can have 33.
834 ([\d\.]+) part for the signature file has a strict requirement to match
836 that for the upstream tarball specified in the previous line by having
837 previous as version in the watch line.
838 HTTP site (flexible)
840 Here is an example for the maximum flexibility of upstream tarball and
841 signature file extensions.
842 version=4
844 opts="pgpmode=next" http://example.com/DL/ \
845 files/(?:\d+)/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ debian
846 opts="pgpmode=previous" http://example.com/DL/ \
847 files/(?:\d+)/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@SIGNATURE_EXT@ \
848 previous uupdate
849 HTTP site (basic MUT)
851 Here is an example for the basic multiple upstream tarballs.
852 version=4
854 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%$%.sig%" \
855 http://example.com/release/foo.html \
856 files/foo-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz debian
857 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%$%.sig%, component=bar" \
858 http://example.com/release/foo.html \
859 files/foobar-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz same
860 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%$%.sig%, component=baz" \
861 http://example.com/release/foo.html \
862 files/foobaz-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz same uupdate
863 For the main upstream source package foo-2.0.tar.gz and the secondary
865 upstream source packages foobar-2.0.tar.gz and foobaz-2.0.tar.gz which
866 install under bar/ and baz/, this watch file downloads and creates the
867 Debian orig.tar file foo_2.0.orig.tar.gz, foo_2.0.orig-bar.tar.gz and
868 foo_2.0.orig-baz.tar.gz. Also, these upstream tarballs are verified by
869 their signature files.
870 HTTP site (recursive directory scanning)
872 Here is an example with the recursive directory scanning for the
873 upstream tarball and its signature files released in a directory named
874 after their version.
875 version=4
877 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%$%.sig%, dirversionmangle=s/-PRE/~pre/;s/-RC/~rc/" \
878 http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/([\d+\.]+)/ \
879 Twisted-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.xz debian uupdate
880 Here, the web site should be accessible at the following URL:
882 http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/
884 Here, dirversionmangle option is used to normalize the sorting order of
886 the directory names.
887 HTTP site (alternative shorthand)
889 For the bare HTTP site where you can directly see archive filenames,
890 the normal watch file:
891 version=4
893 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%$%.sig%" \
894 http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/ \
895 Text-CSV_XS-(.+)\.tar\.gz \
896 debian uupdate
897 can be rewritten in an alternative shorthand form only with a single
899 string covering URL and filename:
900 version=4
902 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%$%.sig%" \
903 http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/Text-CSV_XS-(.+)\.tar\.gz \
904 debian uupdate
905 In version=4, initial white spaces are dropped. Thus, this alternative
907 shorthand form can also be written as:
908 version=4
910 opts="pgpsigurlmangle=s%$%.sig%" \
911 http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/\
912 Text-CSV_XS-(.+)\.tar\.gz \
913 debian uupdate
914 Please note the subtle difference of a space before the tailing \
916 between the first and the last examples.
917 HTTP site (funny version)
919 For a site which has funny version numbers, the parenthesized groups
920 will be joined with . (period) to make a sanitized version number.
921 version=4
923 http://www.site.com/pub/foobar/foobar_v(\d+)_(\d+)\.tar\.gz \
924 debian uupdate
925 HTTP site (DFSG)
927 The upstream part of the Debian version number can be mangled to
928 indicate the source package was repackaged to clean up non-DFSG files:
929 version=4
931 opts="dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg\d*$//,repacksuffix=+dfsg1" \
932 http://some.site.org/some/path/foobar-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
933 See "COPYRIGHT FILE EXAMPLES".
935 HTTP site (filenamemangle)
937 The upstream tarball filename is found by taking the last component of
938 the URL and removing everything after any '?' or '#'.
939 If this does not fit to you, use filenamemangle. For example, <A
941 href="http://foo.bar.org/dl/?path=&dl=foo-0.1.1.tar.gz"> could be
942 handled as:
943 version=4
945 opts=filenamemangle=s/.*=(.*)/$1/ \
946 http://foo.bar.org/dl/\?path=&dl=foo-(.+)\.tar\.gz \
947 debian uupdate
948 <A href="http://foo.bar.org/dl/?path=&dl_version=0.1.1"> could be
950 handled as:
951 version=4
953 opts=filenamemangle=s/.*=(.*)/foo-$1\.tar\.gz/ \
954 http://foo.bar.org/dl/\?path=&dl_version=(.+) \
955 debian uupdate
956 If the href string has no version using <I>matching-pattern>, the
958 version can be obtained from the full URL using filenamemangle.
959 version=4
961 opts=filenamemangle=s&.*/dl/(.*)/foo\.tar\.gz&foo-$1\.tar\.gz& \
962 http://foo.bar.org/dl/([\.\d]+)/ foo.tar.gz \
963 debian uupdate
964 HTTP site (downloadurlmangle)
966 The option downloadurlmangle can be used to mangle the URL of the file
967 to download. This can only be used with http:// URLs. This may be
968 necessary if the link given on the web page needs to be transformed in
969 some way into one which will work automatically, for example:
970 version=4
972 opts=downloadurlmangle=s/prdownload/download/ \
973 http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2051 \
974 http://prdownload.berlios.de/softdevice/vdr-softdevice-(.+).tgz \
975 debian uupdate
976 HTTP site (oversionmangle, MUT)
978 The option oversionmangle can be used to mangle the version of the
979 source tarball (.orig.tar.gz and .orig-bar.tar.gz). For example,
980 +dfsg1 can be added to the upstream version as:
981 version=4
983 opts=oversionmangle=s/(.*)/$1+dfsg1/ \
984 http://example.com/~user/release/foo.html \
985 files/foo-([\d\.]*).tar.gz debian
986 opts="component=bar" \
987 http://example.com/~user/release/foo.html \
988 files/bar-([\d\.]*).tar.gz same uupdate
989 See "COPYRIGHT FILE EXAMPLES".
991 HTTP site (pagemangle)
993 The option pagemangle can be used to mangle the downloaded web page
994 before applying other rules. The non-standard web page without proper
995 <a href=" << ... >> "> entries can be converted. For example, if
996 foo.html uses <a bogus=" ... ">, this can be converted to the standard
997 page format with:
998 version=4
1000 opts=pagemangle="s/<a\s+bogus=/<a href=/g" \
1001 http://example.com/release/foo.html \
1002 files/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ debian uupdate
1003 Please note the use of g here to replace all occurrences.
1005 If foo.html uses <Key> ... </Key>, this can be converted to the
1007 standard page format with:
1008 version=4
1010 opts="pagemangle=s%<Key>([^<]*)</Key>%<Key><a href="$1">$1</a></Key>%g" \
1011 http://example.com/release/foo.html \
1012 (?:.*)/@PACKAGE@@ANY_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@ debian uupdate
1013 FTP site (basic):
1015 version=4
1016 ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/web/c_cpp/cweb/cweb-(.+)\.tar\.gz \
1017 debian uupdate
1018 FTP site (regex special characters):
1020 version=4
1021 ftp://ftp.worldforge.org/pub/worldforge/libs/\
1022 Atlas-C++/transitional/Atlas-C\+\+-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
1023 Please note that this URL is connected to be ... libs/Atlas-C++/ ...
1025 . For ++, the first one in the directory path is verbatim while the one
1026 in the filename is escaped by \.
1027 FTP site (funny version)
1029 This is another way of handling site with funny version numbers, this
1030 time using mangling. (Note that multiple groups will be concatenated
1031 before mangling is performed, and that mangling will only be performed
1032 on the basename version number, not any path version numbers.)
1033 version=4
1035 opts="uversionmangle=s/^/0.0./" \
1036 ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/\
1037 development/Wine-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
1038 sf.net
1040 For SourceForge based projects, qa.debian.org runs a redirector which
1041 allows a simpler form of URL. The format below will automatically be
1042 rewritten to use the redirector with the watch file:
1043 version=4
1045 https://sf.net/<project>/ <tar-name>-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
1046 For audacity, set the watch file as:
1048 version=4
1050 https://sf.net/audacity/ audacity-minsrc-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
1051 Please note, you can still use normal functionalities of uscan to set
1053 up a watch file for this site without using the redirector.
1054 version=4
1056 opts="uversionmangle=s/-pre/~pre/, \
1057 filenamemangle=s%(?:.*)audacity-minsrc-(.+)\.tar\.xz/download%\
1058 audacity-$1.tar.xz%" \
1059 http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/files/audacity/(\d[\d\.]+)/ \
1060 (?:.*)audacity-minsrc-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.xz/download debian uupdate
1061 Here, % is used as the separator instead of the standard /.
1063 github.com
1065 For GitHub based projects, you can use the tags or releases page. The
1066 archive URL uses only the version as the filename. You can rename the
1067 downloaded upstream tarball from into the standard
1068 <project>-<version>.tar.gz using filenamemangle:
1069 version=4
1071 opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz%@PACKAGE@-$1.tar.gz%" \
1072 https://github.com/<user>/<project>/tags \
1073 (?:.*?/)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
1074 PyPI
1076 For PyPI based projects, pypi.debian.net runs a redirector which allows
1077 a simpler form of URL. The format below will automatically be rewritten
1078 to use the redirector with the watch file:
1079 version=4
1081 https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/<initial>/<project>/ \
1082 <tar-name>-(.+)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
1083 For cfn-sphere, set the watch file as:
1085 version=4
1087 https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cfn-sphere/ \
1088 cfn-sphere-([\d\.]+).tar.gz debian uupdate
1089 Please note, you can still use normal functionalities of uscan to set
1091 up a watch file for this site without using the redirector.
1092 version=4
1094 opts="pgpmode=none" \
1095 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cfn-sphere/ \
1096 https://pypi.python.org/packages/.*/.*/.*/\
1097 cfn-sphere-([\d\.]+).tar.gz#.* debian uupdate
1098 code.google.com
1100 Sites which used to be hosted on the Google Code service should have
1101 migrated to elsewhere (github?). Please look for the newer upstream
1102 site if available.
1103 npmjs.org (node modules)
1105 npmjs.org modules are published in JSON files. Here is a way to read
1106 them:
1107 version=4
1109 opts="searchmode=plain" \
1110 https://registry.npmjs.org/aes-js \
1111 https://registry.npmjs.org/aes-js/-/aes-js-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@
1112 grouped package
1114 Some node modules are split into multiple little upstream package. Here
1115 is a way to group them:
1116 version=4
1118 opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none" \
1119 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb \
1120 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb/-/mongodb-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ group
1121 opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,component=bson" \
1122 https://registry.npmjs.org/bson \
1123 https://registry.npmjs.org/bson/-/bson-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ group
1124 opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,component=mongodb-core" \
1125 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb-core \
1126 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb-core/-/mongodb-core-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ group
1127 opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,component=requireoptional" \
1128 https://registry.npmjs.org/require_optional \
1129 https://registry.npmjs.org/require_optional/-/require_optional-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ group
1130 Package version is then the concatenation of upstream versions
1132 separated by "+~".
1133 To avoid having a too long version, the "checksum" method can be used.
1135 In this case, the main source has to be declared as "group":
1136 version=4
1138 opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none" \
1139 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb \
1140 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb/-/mongodb-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ group
1141 opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,component=bson" \
1142 https://registry.npmjs.org/bson \
1143 https://registry.npmjs.org/bson/-/bson-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ checksum
1144 opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,component=mongodb-core" \
1145 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb-core \
1146 https://registry.npmjs.org/mongodb-core/-/mongodb-core-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ checksum
1147 opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,component=requireoptional" \
1148 https://registry.npmjs.org/require_optional \
1149 https://registry.npmjs.org/require_optional/-/require_optional-(\d[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ checksum
1150 The "checksum" is made up of the separate sum of each number composing
1152 the component versions. Following is an example with 3 components
1153 whose versions are "1.2.4", "2.0.1" and "10.0", with the main tarball
1154 having version "2.0.6":
1155 Main: 2.0.6
1157 Comp1: 1 . 2 . 4
1158 Comp2: 2 . 0 . 1
1159 Comp3: 10 . 0
1160 ================================
1161 Result : 1+2+10 . 2+0+0 . 4+1
1162 Checksum: 13 . 2 . 5
1163 ================================
1164 Final Version: 2.0.6+~cs13.2.5
1165 uscan will also display the original version string before being
1167 encoded into the checksum, which can for example be used in a
1168 debian/changelog entry to easily follow the changes:
1169 2.0.6+~1.2.4+~2.0.1+~10.0
1171 Note: This feature currently accepts only versions composed of digits
1173 and full stops (`.`).
1174 direct access to the git repository (tags)
1176 If the upstream only publishes its code via the git repository and its
1177 code has no web interface to obtain the release tarball, you can use
1178 uscan with the tags of the git repository to track and package the new
1179 upstream release.
1180 version=4
1182 opts="mode=git, gitmode=full, pgpmode=none" \
1183 http://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git \
1184 refs/tags/v([\d\.]+) debian uupdate
1185 Please note "git ls-remote" is used to obtain references for tags.
1187 If a tag v20.5 is the newest tag, the above example downloads
1189 spkg-20.5.tar.xz after making a full clone of the git repository which
1190 is needed for dumb git server.
1191 If tags are signed, set pgpmode=gittag to verify them.
1193 direct access to the git repository (HEAD)
1195 If the upstream only publishes its code via the git repository and its
1196 code has no web interface nor the tags to obtain the released tarball,
1197 you can use uscan with the HEAD of the git repository to track and
1198 package the new upstream release with an automatically generated
1199 version string.
1200 version=4
1202 opts="mode=git, pgpmode=none" \
1203 https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang \
1204 HEAD debian uupdate
1205 Please note that a local shallow copy of the git repository is made
1207 with "git clone --bare --depth=1 ..." normally in the target directory.
1208 uscan generates the new upstream version with "git log
1209 --date=format:%Y%m%d --pretty=0.0~git%cd.%h" on this local copy of
1210 repository as its default behavior.
1211 The generation of the upstream version string may the adjusted to your
1213 taste by adding pretty and date options to the opts arguments.
1214 direct access to the Subversion repository (tags)
1216 If the upstream only publishes its code via the Subversion repository
1217 and its code has no web interface to obtain the release tarball, you
1218 can use uscan with the tags of the Subversion repository to track and
1219 package the new upstream release.
1220 version=4
1222 opts="mode=svn, pgpmode=none" \
1223 svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/jmol/code/tags/ \
1224 ([\d.]+)\/ debian uupdate
1225 direct access to the Subversion repository (HEAD)
1227 If the upstream only publishes its code via the Subversion repository
1228 and its code has no web interface to obtain the release tarball, you
1229 can use uscan to get the most recent source of a subtree in the
1230 repository with an automatically generated version string.
1231 version=4
1233 opts="mode=svn, pgpmode=none" \
1234 svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/jmol/code/trunk/ \
1235 HEAD debian uupdate
1236 By default, uscan generates the new upstream version by appending the
1238 revision number to "0.0~svn". This can later be changed using
1239 uversionmangle.
1240
1242 Here is an example for the debian/copyright file which initiates
1243 automatic repackaging of the upstream tarball into
1244 <spkg>_<oversion>.orig.tar.gz (In debian/copyright, the Files-Excluded
1245 and Files-Excluded-component stanzas are a part of the first paragraph
1246 and there is a blank line before the following paragraphs which contain
1247 Files and other stanzas.):
1248 Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
1250 Files-Excluded: exclude-this
1251 exclude-dir
1252 */exclude-dir
1253 .*
1254 */js/jquery.js
1255 Files: *
1257 Copyright: ...
1258 ...
1259 Here is another example for the debian/copyright file which initiates
1261 automatic repackaging of the multiple upstream tarballs into
1262 <spkg>_<oversion>.orig.tar.gz and <spkg>_<oversion>.orig-bar.tar.gz:
1263 Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
1265 Files-Excluded: exclude-this
1266 exclude-dir
1267 */exclude-dir
1268 .*
1269 */js/jquery.js
1270 Files-Excluded-bar: exclude-this
1271 exclude-dir
1272 */exclude-dir
1273 .*
1274 */js/jquery.js
1275 Files: *
1277 Copyright: ...
1278 ...
1279 See mk-origtargz(1).
1281
1283 Let's assume that the upstream "uscan test key (no secret)
1284 <none@debian.org>" signs its package with a secret OpenPGP key and
1285 publishes the corresponding public OpenPGP key. This public OpenPGP
1286 key can be identified in 3 ways using the hexadecimal form.
1287 • The fingerprint as the 20 byte data calculated from the public
1289 OpenPGP key. E. g., 'CF21 8F0E 7EAB F584 B7E2 0402 C77E 2D68 7254
1290 3FAF'
1291 • The long keyid as the last 8 byte data of the fingerprint. E. g.,
1293 'C77E2D6872543FAF'
1294 • The short keyid is the last 4 byte data of the fingerprint. E. g.,
1296 '72543FAF'
1297 Considering the existence of the collision attack on the short keyid,
1299 the use of the long keyid is recommended for receiving keys from the
1300 public key servers. You must verify the downloaded OpenPGP key using
1301 its full fingerprint value which you know is the trusted one.
1302 The armored keyring file debian/upstream/signing-key.asc can be created
1304 by using the gpg (or gpg2) command as follows.
1305 $ gpg --recv-keys "C77E2D6872543FAF"
1307 ...
1308 $ gpg --finger "C77E2D6872543FAF"
1309 pub 4096R/72543FAF 2015-09-02
1310 Key fingerprint = CF21 8F0E 7EAB F584 B7E2 0402 C77E 2D68 7254 3FAF
1311 uid uscan test key (no secret) <none@debian.org>
1312 sub 4096R/52C6ED39 2015-09-02
1313 $ cd path/to/<upkg>-<uversion>
1314 $ mkdir -p debian/upstream
1315 $ gpg --export --export-options export-minimal --armor \
1316 'CF21 8F0E 7EAB F584 B7E2 0402 C77E 2D68 7254 3FAF' \
1317 >debian/upstream/signing-key.asc
1318 The binary keyring files, debian/upstream/signing-key.pgp and
1320 debian/upstream-signing-key.pgp, are still supported but deprecated.
1321 If a group of developers sign the package, you need to list
1323 fingerprints of all of them in the argument for gpg --export ... to
1324 make the keyring to contain all OpenPGP keys of them.
1325 Sometimes you may wonder who made a signature file. You can get the
1327 public keyid used to create the detached signature file
1328 foo-2.0.tar.gz.asc by running gpg as:
1329 $ gpg -vv foo-2.0.tar.gz.asc
1331 gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE
1332 gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1
1333 :signature packet: algo 1, keyid C77E2D6872543FAF
1334 version 4, created 1445177469, md5len 0, sigclass 0x00
1335 digest algo 2, begin of digest 7a c7
1336 hashed subpkt 2 len 4 (sig created 2015-10-18)
1337 subpkt 16 len 8 (issuer key ID C77E2D6872543FAF)
1338 data: [4091 bits]
1339 gpg: assuming signed data in `foo-2.0.tar.gz'
1340 gpg: Signature made Sun 18 Oct 2015 11:11:09 PM JST using RSA key ID 72543FAF
1341 ...
1342
1344 For the basic usage, uscan does not require to set these options.
1345 --conffile, --conf-file
1347 Add or replace default configuration files ("/etc/devscripts.conf"
1348 and "~/.devscripts"). This can only be used as the first option
1349 given on the command-line.
1350 replace:
1352 uscan --conf-file test.conf --verbose
1353 add:
1355 uscan --conf-file +test.conf --verbose
1356 If one --conf-file has no "+", default configuration files are
1358 ignored.
1359 --no-conf, --noconf
1361 Don't read any configuration files. This can only be used as the
1362 first option given on the command-line.
1363 --no-verbose
1365 Don't report verbose information. (default)
1366 --verbose, -v
1368 Report verbose information.
1369 --debug, -vv
1371 Report verbose information and some internal state values.
1372 --extra-debug, -vvv
1374 Report verbose information including the downloaded web pages as
1375 processed to STDERR for debugging.
1376 --dehs
1378 Send DEHS style output (XML-type) to STDOUT, while send all other
1379 uscan output to STDERR.
1380 --no-dehs
1382 Use only traditional uscan output format. (default)
1383 --download, -d
1385 Download the new upstream release. (default)
1386 --force-download, -dd
1388 Download the new upstream release even if up-to-date. (may not
1389 overwrite the local file)
1390 --overwrite-download, -ddd
1392 Download the new upstream release even if up-to-date. (may
1393 overwrite the local file)
1394 --no-download, --nodownload
1396 Don't download and report information.
1397 Previously downloaded tarballs may be used.
1399 Change default to --skip-signature.
1401 --signature
1403 Download signature. (default)
1404 --no-signature
1406 Don't download signature but verify if already downloaded.
1407 --skip-signature
1409 Don't bother download signature nor verifying signature.
1410 --safe, --report
1412 Avoid running unsafe scripts by skipping both the repacking of the
1413 downloaded package and the updating of the new source tree.
1414 Change default to --no-download and --skip-signature.
1416 When the objective of running uscan is to gather the upstream
1418 package status under the security conscious environment, please
1419 make sure to use this option.
1420 --report-status
1422 This is equivalent of setting "--verbose --safe".
1423 --download-version version
1425 Specify the version which the upstream release must match in order
1426 to be considered, rather than using the release with the highest
1427 version. (a best effort feature)
1428 --download-debversion version
1430 Specify the Debian package version to download the corresponding
1431 upstream release version. The dversionmangle and uversionmangle
1432 rules are considered. (a best effort feature)
1433 --download-current-version
1435 Download the currently packaged version. (a best effort feature)
1436 --check-dirname-level N
1438 See the below section "Directory name checking" for an explanation
1439 of this option.
1440 --check-dirname-regex regex
1442 See the below section "Directory name checking" for an explanation
1443 of this option.
1444 --destdir path Normally, uscan changes its internal current directory
1446 to the package's source directory where the debian/ is located. Then
1447 the destination directory for the downloaded tarball and other files is
1448 set to the parent directory ../ from this internal current directory.
1449 This default destination directory can be overridden by setting
1450 --destdir option to a particular path. If this path is a relative
1451 path, the destination directory is determined in relative to the
1452 internal current directory of uscan execution. If this path is a
1453 absolute path, the destination directory is set to path
1454 irrespective of the internal current directory of uscan execution.
1455 The above is true not only for the simple uscan run in the single
1457 source tree but also for the advanced scanning uscan run with
1458 subdirectories holding multiple source trees.
1459 One exception is when --watchfile and --package are used together.
1461 For this case, the internal current directory of uscan execution
1462 and the default destination directory are set to the current
1463 directory . where uscan is started. The default destination
1464 directory can be overridden by setting --destdir option as well.
1465 --package package
1467 Specify the name of the package to check for rather than examining
1468 debian/changelog; this requires the --upstream-version (unless a
1469 version is specified in the watch file) and --watchfile options as
1470 well. Furthermore, no directory scanning will be done and nothing
1471 will be downloaded. This option automatically sets --no-download
1472 and --skip-signature; and probably most useful in conjunction with
1473 the DEHS system (and --dehs).
1474 --upstream-version upstream-version
1476 Specify the current upstream version rather than examine
1477 debian/watch or debian/changelog to determine it. This is ignored
1478 if a directory scan is being performed and more than one
1479 debian/watch file is found.
1480 --watchfile watchfile
1482 Specify the watchfile rather than perform a directory scan to
1483 determine it. If this option is used without --package, then uscan
1484 must be called from within the Debian package source tree (so that
1485 debian/changelog can be found simply by stepping up through the
1486 tree).
1487 One exception is when --watchfile and --package are used together.
1489 uscan can be called from anywhare and the internal current
1490 directory of uscan execution and the default destination directory
1491 are set to the current directory . where uscan is started.
1492 See more in the --destdir explanation.
1494 --bare
1496 Disable all site specific special case codes to perform URL
1497 redirections and page content alterations.
1498 --http-header
1500 Add specified header in HTTP requests for matching url. This option
1501 can be used more than one time, values must be in the form
1502 "baseUrl@Name=value. Example:
1503 uscan --http-header https://example.org@My-Token=qwertyuiop
1505 Security:
1507 The given baseUrl must exactly match the base url before '/'.
1509 Examples:
1510 | --http-header value | Good for | Never used |
1511 +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+------------+
1512 | https://example.org.com@Hdr=Value | https://example.org.com/... | |
1513 | https://example.org.com/@Hdr=Value | | X |
1514 | https://e.com:1879@Hdr=Value | https://e.com:1879/... | |
1515 | https://e.com:1879/dir@Hdr=Value | https://e.com:1879/dir/... | |
1516 | https://e.com:1879/dir/@Hdr=Value | | X |
1517 It is strongly recommended to not use this feature to pass a secret
1519 token over unciphered connection (http://)
1520 You can use "USCAN_HTTP_HEADER" variable (in "~/.devscripts") to
1521 hide secret token from scripts
1522 --no-exclusion
1523 Don't automatically exclude files mentioned in debian/copyright
1524 field Files-Excluded.
1525 --pasv
1527 Force PASV mode for FTP connections.
1528 --no-pasv
1530 Don't use PASV mode for FTP connections.
1531 --no-symlink
1533 Don't rename nor repack upstream tarball.
1534 --timeout N
1536 Set timeout to N seconds (default 20 seconds).
1537 --user-agent, --useragent
1539 Override the default user agent header.
1540 --help
1542 Give brief usage information.
1543 --version
1545 Display version information.
1546 uscan also accepts following options and passes them to mk-origtargz:
1548 --symlink
1550 Make orig.tar.gz (with the appropriate extension) symlink to the
1551 downloaded files. (This is the default behavior.)
1552 --copy
1554 Instead of symlinking as described above, copy the downloaded
1555 files.
1556 --rename
1558 Instead of symlinking as described above, rename the downloaded
1559 files.
1560 --repack
1562 After having downloaded an lzma tar, xz tar, bzip tar, gz tar, zip,
1563 jar, xpi archive, repack it to the specified compression (see
1564 --compression).
1565 The unzip package must be installed in order to repack zip and jar
1567 archives, the mozilla-devscripts package must be installed to
1568 repack xpi archives, and the xz-utils package must be installed to
1569 repack lzma or xz tar archives.
1570 --compression [ gzip | bzip2 | lzma | xz ]
1572 In the case where the upstream sources are repacked (either because
1573 --repack option is given or debian/copyright contains the field
1574 Files-Excluded), it is possible to control the compression method
1575 via the parameter. The default is gzip for normal tarballs, and xz
1576 for tarballs generated directly from the git repository.
1577 --copyright-file copyright-file
1579 Exclude files mentioned in Files-Excluded in the given copyright-
1580 file. This is useful when running uscan not within a source
1581 package directory.
1582
1584 For the basic usage, uscan does not require to set these configuration
1585 variables.
1586 The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are
1588 sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables. These
1589 may be overridden by command line options. Environment variable
1590 settings are ignored for this purpose. If the first command line option
1591 given is --noconf, then these files will not be read. The currently
1592 recognized variables are:
1593 USCAN_DOWNLOAD
1595 Download or report only:
1596 no: equivalent to --no-download, newer upstream files will not be
1598 downloaded.
1599 yes: equivalent to --download, newer upstream files will be
1600 downloaded. This is the default behavior.
1601 See also --force-download and --overwrite-download.
1602 USCAN_SAFE
1604 If this is set to yes, then uscan avoids running unsafe scripts by
1605 skipping both the repacking of the downloaded package and the
1606 updating of the new source tree; this is equivalent to the --safe
1607 options; this also sets the default to --no-download and
1608 --skip-signature.
1609 USCAN_PASV
1611 If this is set to yes or no, this will force FTP connections to use
1612 PASV mode or not to, respectively. If this is set to default, then
1613 Net::FTP(3) makes the choice (primarily based on the FTP_PASSIVE
1614 environment variable).
1615 USCAN_TIMEOUT
1617 If set to a number N, then set the timeout to N seconds. This is
1618 equivalent to the --timeout option.
1619 USCAN_SYMLINK
1621 If this is set to no, then a pkg_version.orig.tar.{gz|bz2|lzma|xz}
1622 symlink will not be made (equivalent to the --no-symlink option).
1623 If it is set to yes or symlink, then the symlinks will be made. If
1624 it is set to rename, then the files are renamed (equivalent to the
1625 --rename option).
1626 USCAN_DEHS_OUTPUT
1628 If this is set to yes, then DEHS-style output will be used. This is
1629 equivalent to the --dehs option.
1630 USCAN_VERBOSE
1632 If this is set to yes, then verbose output will be given. This is
1633 equivalent to the --verbose option.
1634 USCAN_USER_AGENT
1636 If set, the specified user agent string will be used in place of
1637 the default. This is equivalent to the --user-agent option.
1638 USCAN_DESTDIR
1640 If set, the downloaded files will be placed in this directory.
1641 This is equivalent to the --destdir option.
1642 USCAN_REPACK
1644 If this is set to yes, then after having downloaded a bzip tar,
1645 lzma tar, xz tar, or zip archive, uscan will repack it to the
1646 specified compression (see --compression). This is equivalent to
1647 the --repack option.
1648 USCAN_EXCLUSION
1650 If this is set to no, files mentioned in the field Files-Excluded
1651 of debian/copyright will be ignored and no exclusion of files will
1652 be tried. This is equivalent to the --no-exclusion option.
1653 USCAN_HTTP_HEADER
1655 If set, the specified http header will be used if URL match. This
1656 is equivalent to --http-header option.
1657
1659 The exit status gives some indication of whether a newer version was
1660 found or not; one is advised to read the output to determine exactly
1661 what happened and whether there were any warnings to be noted.
1662 0 Either --help or --version was used, or for some watch file which
1664 was examined, a newer upstream version was located.
1665 1 No newer upstream versions were located for any of the watch files
1667 examined.
1668
1670 uscan has many other enhanced features which are skipped in the above
1671 section for the simplicity. Let's check their highlights.
1672 uscan can be executed with path as its argument to change the starting
1674 directory of search from the current directory to path .
1675 If you are not sure what exactly is happening behind the scene, please
1677 enable the --verbose option. If this is not enough, enable the --debug
1678 option too see all the internal activities.
1679 See "COMMANDLINE OPTIONS" and "DEVSCRIPT CONFIGURATION VARIABLES" for
1681 other variations.
1682 Custom script
1684 The optional script parameter in debian/watch means to execute script
1685 with options after processing this line if specified.
1686 See "HISTORY AND UPGRADING" for how uscan invokes the custom script.
1688 For compatibility with other tools such as git-buildpackage, it may not
1690 be wise to create custom scripts with random behavior. In general,
1691 uupdate is the best choice for the non-native package and custom
1692 scripts, if created, should behave as if uupdate. For possible use
1693 case, see <http://bugs.debian.org/748474> as an example.
1694 URL diversion
1696 Some popular web sites changed their web page structure causing
1697 maintenance problems to the watch file. There are some redirection
1698 services created to ease maintenance of the watch file. Currently,
1699 uscan makes automatic diversion of URL requests to the following URLs
1700 to cope with this situation.
1701 • <http://sf.net>
1703 • <http://pypi.python.org>
1705 Directory name checking
1707 Similarly to several other scripts in the devscripts package, uscan
1708 explores the requested directory trees looking for debian/changelog and
1709 debian/watch files. As a safeguard against stray files causing
1710 potential problems, and in order to promote efficiency, it will examine
1711 the name of the parent directory once it finds the debian/changelog
1712 file, and check that the directory name corresponds to the package
1713 name. It will only attempt to download newer versions of the package
1714 and then perform any requested action if the directory name matches the
1715 package name. Precisely how it does this is controlled by two
1716 configuration file variables DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL and
1717 DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX, and their corresponding command-line
1718 options --check-dirname-level and --check-dirname-regex.
1719 DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL can take the following values:
1721 0 Never check the directory name.
1723 1 Only check the directory name if we have had to change directory in
1725 our search for debian/changelog, that is, the directory containing
1726 debian/changelog is not the directory from which uscan was invoked.
1727 This is the default behavior.
1728 2 Always check the directory name.
1730 The directory name is checked by testing whether the current directory
1732 name (as determined by pwd(1)) matches the regex given by the
1733 configuration file option DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX or by the
1734 command line option --check-dirname-regex regex. Here regex is a Perl
1735 regex (see perlre(3perl)), which will be anchored at the beginning and
1736 the end. If regex contains a /, then it must match the full directory
1737 path. If not, then it must match the full directory name. If regex
1738 contains the string package, this will be replaced by the source
1739 package name, as determined from the debian/changelog. The default
1740 value for the regex is: package(-.+)?, thus matching directory names
1741 such as package and package-version.
1742
1744 This section briefly describes the backwards-incompatible watch file
1745 features which have been added in each watch file version, and the
1746 first version of the devscripts package which understood them.
1747 Pre-version 2
1749 The watch file syntax was significantly different in those days.
1750 Don't use it. If you are upgrading from a pre-version 2 watch
1751 file, you are advised to read this manpage and to start from
1752 scratch.
1753 Version 2
1755 devscripts version 2.6.90: The first incarnation of the current
1756 style of watch files. This version is also deprecated and will be
1757 rejected after the Debian 11 release.
1758 Version 3
1760 devscripts version 2.8.12: Introduced the following: correct
1761 handling of regex special characters in the path part,
1762 directory/path pattern matching, version number in several parts,
1763 version number mangling. Later versions have also introduced URL
1764 mangling.
1765 If you are upgrading from version 2, the key incompatibility is if
1767 you have multiple groups in the pattern part; whereas only the
1768 first one would be used in version 2, they will all be used in
1769 version 3. To avoid this behavior, change the non-version-number
1770 groups to be (?: ... ) instead of a plain ( ... ) group.
1771 • uscan invokes the custom script as "script --upstream-version
1773 version ../spkg_version.orig.tar.gz".
1774 • uscan invokes the standard uupdate as "uupdate --no-symlink
1776 --upstream-version version ../spkg_version.orig.tar.gz".
1777 Version 4
1779 devscripts version 2.15.10: The first incarnation of watch files
1780 supporting multiple upstream tarballs.
1781 The syntax of the watch file is relaxed to allow more spaces for
1783 readability.
1784 If you have a custom script in place of uupdate, you may also
1786 encounter problems updating from Version 3.
1787 • uscan invokes the custom script as "script --upstream-version
1789 version".
1790 • uscan invokes the standard uupdate as "uupdate --find
1792 --upstream-version version".
1793 Restriction for --dehs is lifted by redirecting other output to
1795 STDERR when it is activated.
1796
1798 dpkg(1), mk-origtargz(1), perlre(1), uupdate(1), devscripts.conf(5)
1799
1801 The original version of uscan was written by Christoph Lameter
1802 <clameter@debian.org>. Significant improvements, changes and bugfixes
1803 were made by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>. HTTP support was added by
1804 Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org>. The program was rewritten in Perl
1805 by Julian Gilbey. Xavier Guimard converted it in object-oriented Perl
1806 using Moo.
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