Bug#1116001: vcswatch: doesn't work for Archive: GitHub automatic uscan support

Control: retitle 1116001 qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch doesn't work for Archive:GitHub

On 22/09/25 at 16:48 -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> sugar-artwork 0.121-2 does not have debian/watch but it instead has
> Archive: Github set in debian/upstream/metadata . This correctly works
> with uscan from devscripts 2.25.19 but vcswatch appears to be unable
> to handle this convention:
> 
> https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=sugar-artwork

Hi!

This is not vcswatch (that scans VCS repositories declared in Vcs-*) but
qa.d.o/cgi-bin/watch (than uses uscan to scan upstream websites).

Behind the scenes, the scanning is handled by UDD, and the 'watch'
script is just a frontend.

The UDD 'upstream' gatherer needs some changes to adjust to this new
uscan behaviour. I will work on this now that there's a package to test
on.

Lucas