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Bug#1107766: devscripts: uscan: gitmodules doesn't seem to work

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Hi Hugh,

Hugh McMaster <hmc@debian.org> writes:

> Hello Xiyue,
>
> Thank you for the bug report and for testing uscan's gitmodules option.
>
> On 14/06/2025 10:16 am, Xiyue Deng wrote:
>> I'm trying to use gitmodules in uscan which was introduced since
>> 2.25.11[1], but it doesn't checkout the submodule when running uscan.
>
> [snip]
>
>> I have updated debian/watch to use submodule following the uscan
>> manpage, which contains the following contents:
>>
>> ,----
>> | version=4
>> | opts="mode=git, gitmode=shallow, gitmodules, gitexport=all" \
>> |     https://github.com/karthink/gptel \
>> |     (?:.*?/)?@ANY_VERSION@ debian uupdate
>> `----
>>
>> (I have created a branch to demonstrate this issue, and you can find the
>> debian/watch file at [2].)
>
> Your regex is failing because of the 'optional' question mark after the 
> non-capturing group.
>

Thanks!  Removing the optional regex mark (the question mark) fixes
this.  I wonder why uscan behaves this way given that this regex works
for other use cases.  I'm asking as I'm using this regex in many
packages and it would be great make it just work.

> You'll probably find it easier to explicitly use 'refs/tags' as per the 
> man page:
>
> refs/tags/v@ANY_VERSION@ debian uupdate
>

QQ: I think @ANY_VERSION@ now detects the "v" prefix recently.  Or is
there a reason to still make it explicit?

> Hope that helps.
>
> Hugh
>

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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