#929799 --download-current-version and --download-version does not work with uscan when using multiple tarballs

Package:
devscripts
Source:
devscripts
Description:
scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Submitter:
Pirate Praveen
Date:
2026-10-23 19:19:02 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#929799#5
Date:
2019-05-31 07:53:41 UTC
From:
To:
severity: important

Repo to reproduce is https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-chokidar

$ cat debian/watch
version=4
opts=\
dversionmangle=s/\+(debian|dfsg|ds|deb)(\.\d+)?$//,\
filenamemangle=s/.*\/v?([\d\.-]+)\.tar\.gz/chokidar-$1.tar.gz/ \
https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/tags
.*/archive/v?([\d\.]+).tar.gz debian

opts="searchmode=plain,pgpmode=none,component=upath" \
https://registry.npmjs.org/upath \
https://registry.npmjs.org/upath/-/upath-(1.[\d\.]*)@ARCHIVE_EXT@ ignore


$ uscan --force-download --download-version 2.1.6
uscan: Newest version of node-chokidar on remote site is 2.1.6,
specified download version is 2.1.6
Leaving ../node-chokidar_2.1.6.orig.tar.gz where it is.
uscan warn: In debian/watch no matching hrefs for version 2.1.6 in
watch line
https://registry.npmjs.org/upath
https://registry.npmjs.org/upath/-/upath-(1.[\d\.]*)(?i)(?:\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip|tgz|tbz|txz))
ignore


$ uscan --force-download --download-current-version
uscan: Newest version of node-chokidar on remote site is 2.1.6,
specified download version is 2.1.6
Leaving ../node-chokidar_2.1.6.orig.tar.gz where it is.
uscan warn: In debian/watch no matching hrefs for version in watch line
https://registry.npmjs.org/upath
https://registry.npmjs.org/upath/-/upath-(1.[\d\.]*)(?i)(?:\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|zip|tgz|tbz|txz))
ignore
#929799#10
Date:
2021-04-25 08:46:02 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I'm unable to reproduce this issue, with and without ctype=nodejs
#929799#17
Date:
2026-10-23 19:11:26 UTC
From:
To:
Building ompl, in salsa I got this error:

https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/ompl/-/jobs/10528973

Checking it locally (just clone the repo) if I do:

$ uscan --no-download --verbose; echo "Exit status: $?"

I got a 0. No error but,

$ uscan --download-current-version --no-download; echo "Exit status: $?"

I got a 1.

Asking AI (chatgpt) it proposes to patch this file:

/usr/share/perl5/Devscripts/Uscan/WatchSource.pm

with this:

  sub BUILD {
      my ($self, $args) = @_;
      if ($self->watch_version > 3) {
          $self->type($self->watchSource->{versionschema});
+        $self->versionmode('ignore')
+          if ($self->watchSource->{versionschema} // '') eq 'ignore';
      }
      return $self;
  }

I have to admit that it works, but I don't know if it is valid or not.

Best regards,

Leopold