Bug#674046: [uscan] Option to not expand symbolic links in FTP

[Nelson A. de Oliveira]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.11.7
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/uscan

Hi!

Is it possible to have an option to make uscan not expand the symbolic
links (or follow them) with FTP sites?

For example:

=====
version=3
ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/tumgreyspf/tumgreyspf-(.*).tar.gz
=====

And then we have:

=====
$ uscan --report-status
dpkg: error: version '1.36.tar.gz -> old-releases/tumgreyspf-1.36' has bad syntax: version string has embedded spaces
Processing watchfile line for package tumgreyspf...
Newest version on remote site is 1.36.tar.gz -> old-releases/tumgreyspf-1.36, local version is 1.36
dpkg: error: version '1.36.tar.gz -> old-releases/tumgreyspf-1.36' has bad syntax: version string has embedded spaces
tumgreyspf: Newer version (1.36.tar.gz -> old-releases/tumgreyspf-1.36) available on remote site:
  ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/tumgreyspf/tumgreyspf-1.36.tar.gz -> old-releases/tumgreyspf-1.36.tar.gz
  (local version is 1.36)
=====

Would be good if there was an option to make it not expand the
symlink tumgreyspf-1.36.tar.gz to old-releases/tumgreyspf-1.36.tar.gz

Thank you!

Best regards,
Nelson

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev   1.16.3
ii  libc6      2.13-32
ii  perl       5.14.2-9
ii  python     2.7.2-10
ii  python2.6  2.6.7-4
ii  python2.7  2.7.3~rc2-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                        3.1.13-1
ii  curl                      7.25.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools               2.21.1
ii  debian-keyring            2012.02.22
ii  dput                      0.9.6.3
ii  equivs                    2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                  1.18.3-1
ii  gnupg                     1.4.12-4
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl      0.58-1
ii  libjson-perl              2.53-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-3
ii  libsoap-lite-perl         0.714-1
ii  liburi-perl               1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.04-1
ii  lintian                   2.5.6
ii  man-db                    2.6.1-2
ii  patch                     2.6.1.85-423d-3
ii  patchutils                0.3.2-1.1
ii  python-debian             0.1.21
ii  python-magic              5.11-1
ii  sensible-utils            0.0.6
ii  strace                    4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                     6.0-6
ii  wdiff                     1.1.0-2
ii  wget                      1.13.4-3
ii  xz-utils                  5.1.1alpha+20110809-3

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential              11.5
ii  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
ii  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.0-8
ii  heirloom-mailx [mailx]       12.5-2
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          <none>
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.04-3
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         <none>
ii  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             1.2000-1
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.20-1
ii  mutt                         1.5.21-5+b1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:5.9p1-5
ii  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-7

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