Can make a debian/watch file with a project host in Launchpad ?

I haven't tried it yet, but can you do something like this?

  version=3
  https://launchpad.net/$PROJECT/+download foo-(.*).tar.gz

James: I'm trying to do the same thing and your scheme didn't work for me with this:

version=3
https://launchpad.net/terminator/+download terminator_(.+)\.tar\.gz

I've been somewhat inconsistent with my tarball names in the past, but there is one that should match that (terminator_0.6.tar.gz)

Thanks for the reply

The classic format doesn't work (that's because I asked :))
I think I try all format, but nothing work.
And the link for my download is more complicated :
https://launchpad.net/awn/0.2/0.2.1/+download/avant-window-navigator-0.2.1.tar

I just tried putting together a watch file for bzr-pqm, and the following worked okay:

    version=3
    https://launchpad.net/bzr-pqm/+download https://launchpad.net/bzr-pqm/.*/bzr-pqm-(.+).tar.gz

I then get the following output when running it:

    $ uscan --report-status .
    Processing watchfile line for package bzr-pqm...
    Newest version on remote site is 0.92.0, local version is 0.92.0
     => Package is up to date

Yes! It's work now :)
Thanks a lot :)

Thanks James Henstridge, that solved my question.

After the 1.2.3 release, all watch files are broken (links changed) ...
Anyone found a solution ? All my attempts to rewrite the file was a problem ...

What links changed?

Links to download tarball of projects.
Example with screenlets :
Previous link : https://launchpad.net/screenlets/0.0.14/screenlets-0.0.14.tar.gz
New link : https://launchpad.net/screenlets/trunk/0.0.14/+download/screenlets-0.0.14.tar.gz

Previous watch file :
https://launchpad.net/screenlets/+download https://launchpad.net/screenlets/.*/screenlets-(.+).tar.gz

New watch file (don't work)
https://launchpad.net/screenlets/+download https://launchpad.net/screenlets/trunk/.*/+download/screenlets-(.+).tar.gz

Well, I don't actually think the URLs to downloads changed, and even if it did, your regular expression would still work (because ".*" would cover "+download"). There's something else wrong. What does --debug tell you?

Oh! There was one thing that changed -- the actual download URLs are now HTTP, not HTTPS. So try this:

New watch file (don't work)
https://launchpad.net/screenlets/+download http://launchpad.net/screenlets/trunk/.*/+download/screenlets-(.+).tar.gz

It did not solve my problem ...

...but, switch to http for the second link seems to solve the problem :
https://launchpad.net/screenlets/+download http://launchpad.net/screenlets/.*/screenlets-(.+).tar.gz

Thanks for point this to me :)

The reason +download doesn't work, btw, is probably because you haven't escaped the +. If you do \+ I bet it works.

No +download is correct, the link (before the space) tells uscan the website to look for the expression (after the space)

There's a bug if anyone is interested: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/231797