Debian watch file doesn't work

A test uscan run reported the following output:
dktrkranz@moses:~/gshutdown/gshutdown-0.2$ uscan --verbose --report
-- Scanning for watchfiles in .
-- Found watchfile in ./debian
-- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
   http://gshutdown.tuxfamily.org/release/gshutdown-(.*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
-- Found the following matching hrefs:
     gshutdown-0.1.tar.gz
     gshutdown-0.2.tar.gz
     gshutdown-0.2rc1.tar.gz
Newest version on remote site is 0.2rc1, local version is 0.2
 => Newer version available from
    http://gshutdown.tuxfamily.org/release/gshutdown-0.2rc1.tar.gz
-- Scan finished
dktrkranz@moses:~/gshutdown/gshutdown-0.2$

0.2 is greater than 0.2rc, but watch file considers it not up-to-date.
A temporary solution could be using ([0-9.]*) instead of (.*), but it will probably miss future release candidates.

Hi Luca,

If we use ([0-9.]*) or ([\d\.]*) we have the following:

mruiz@hardy:~/devel/fixes/watch/gshutdown/gshutdown-0.2$ uscan -verbose
-- Scanning for watchfiles in .
-- Found watchfile in ./debian
-- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
   http://gshutdown.tuxfamily.org/release/gshutdown-([0-9.]*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
-- Found the following matching hrefs:
     gshutdown-0.1.tar.gz
     gshutdown-0.2.tar.gz
Newest version on remote site is 0.2, local version is 0.2
 => Package is up to date
-- Scan finished

This confirm your comment ... we missed a version (gshutdown-0.2rc1). What we should do ?

Cheers!

I think we can use ([\d\.]*) safely. Since rc1 version is now obsolete and we are not sure new RCs will follow, we can ignore them for now unless a better regex is provided.

Luca:

I'm attaching a new solution; also dpkg saves the day again:

mruiz@platypus:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.2rc1 gt 0.2 ; echo $?
0

That means: 0.2rc1 is greater than 0.2 :S . Is a good solution to avoid RC versions for this package.

Cheers!

Luca: will you take care of this one?

Uploaded, thanks ;)

This bug was fixed in the package gshutdown - 0.2-0ubuntu2

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gshutdown (0.2-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/watch:
    + Updated download page syntax. (LP: #180131)
  * debian/rules:
    + Fixed a lintian warning (debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error).

 -- Miguel Ruiz <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:48:55 -0300