Subject: Bug#985633: warn about watch files that use github and include full refs

From: Jelmer Vernooij <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 02:24:53 +0000

Package: lintian
Version: 2.104.0
Severity: normal

Some watch files are now broken because GitHub archive URLs now include the
full ref rather than the tag name. It would be great if lintian could warn when this was the case.

See e.g. the watch file for jupyter-core:

https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=jupyter-core

which reports the current upstream version as refs/tags/4.7.1

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                        2.35.2-2
ii  bzip2                           1.0.8-4
ii  diffstat                        1.64-1
ii  dpkg                            1.20.7.1
ii  dpkg-dev                        1.20.7.1
ii  file                            1:5.39-3
ii  gettext                         0.21-4
ii  gpg                             2.2.27-1
ii  intltool-debian                 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                 0.1.40
ii  libarchive-zip-perl             1.68-1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl            0.48-1
ii  libclass-xsaccessor-perl        1.19-3+b7
ii  libclone-perl                   0.45-1+b1
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl             2.26-1
ii  libcpanel-json-xs-perl          4.25-1+b1
ii  libdata-dpath-perl              0.58-1
ii  libdata-validate-domain-perl    0.10-1.1
ii  libdevel-size-perl              0.83-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                    1.20.7.1
ii  libemail-address-xs-perl        1.04-1+b3
ii  libfile-basedir-perl            0.08-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl          0.34-1
ii  libfont-ttf-perl                1.06-1.1
ii  libhtml-html5-entities-perl     0.004-1.1
ii  libipc-run3-perl                0.048-2
ii  libjson-maybexs-perl            1.004003-1
ii  liblist-compare-perl            0.55-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl          0.430-2
ii  liblist-utilsby-perl            0.11-1
ii  libmoo-perl                     2.004004-1
ii  libmoox-aliases-perl            0.001006-1.1
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl         0.27-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl               0.118-1
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.19-1+b7
ii  libproc-processtable-perl       0.59-2+b1
ii  libsereal-decoder-perl          4.018+ds-1+b1
ii  libsereal-encoder-perl          4.018+ds-1+b1
ii  libtext-glob-perl               0.11-1
ii  libtext-levenshteinxs-perl      0.03-4+b8
ii  libtext-markdown-discount-perl  0.12-1+b1
ii  libtext-xslate-perl             3.5.8-1+b1
ii  libtime-duration-perl           1.21-1
ii  libtime-moment-perl             0.44-1+b3
ii  libtimedate-perl                2.3300-2
ii  libtry-tiny-perl                0.30-1
ii  libtype-tiny-perl               1.012001-2
ii  libunicode-utf8-perl            0.62-1+b2
ii  liburi-perl                     5.08-1
ii  libxml-libxml-perl              2.0134+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl            0.82+repack-1+b1
ii  lzip                            1.22-3
ii  lzop                            1.04-2
ii  man-db                          2.9.4-2
ii  patchutils                      0.4.2-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]       5.32.1-3
ii  t1utils                         1.41-4
ii  unzip                           6.0-26
ii  xz-utils                        5.2.5-2

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.59-1

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