#1144990 uscan: fails to scan packages which have digits in the name

Package:
devscripts
Source:
devscripts
Description:
scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Submitter:
Timo Aaltonen
Date:
2026-08-21 07:53:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1144990#5
Date:
2026-08-21 07:51:12 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

When migrating some packages to use watch-format 5 with minimal settings, I noticed that uscan fails to
find the match if the upstream name part has digits, like with libx11:

https://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/libX11-1.8.13.tar.xz (11-1.8.13) index=11-1.8.13-4

the only remedy I can see is to set "Matching-Pattern: libX11-...", which is a bit lame as the same file can
then not be used on all the xorg libs.

t