uscan should remove things like "+dfsg" from the current-version

[Luke Faraone]

Binary package hint: devscripts

My package has a version number like "5.0+dfsg-1", which uscan interprets as greater than remote's version:

lfaraone@Opus:~/Projects/ppt/cmospwd/trunk$ uscan --dehs
<dehs>
<package>cmospwd</package>
<debian-uversion>5.0+dfsg</debian-uversion>
<debian-mangled-uversion>5.0+dfsg</debian-mangled-uversion>
<upstream-version>5.0</upstream-version>
<upstream-url>http://www.cgsecurity.org/cmospwd-5.0.tar.bz2</upstream-url>
<status>Debian version newer than remote site</status>
</dehs>

Ideally the +dfsg would be cut out from the version number.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 27 22:45:37 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: devscripts 2.10.53ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: devscripts
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for your report.

(Current) versions of uscan are able to 'unmangle' the version. he man page contains an example how to filter '.dfsg' from a version, adapting it to '+dfsg' is not too hard I suppose.
You should take a look at the 'per-site options' and specifically to the 'uversionmangle' option

Please update this report, whether this solves your problem/wish or not.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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