Bug#809806: uscan: Writes .uscan.log file unconditionally

[Joachim Breitner]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.10
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/uscan

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Hi,

I use uscan not always in an extract source directory, but rather with
explicit pointers to the watchfile etc., and an explicit destdir, e.g.:

uscan --rename --force-download --package haskell-generics-sop --download --watchfile /home/jojo/debian/pkg-haskell/packages/p/haskell-generics-sop/debian/watch --copyright-file /home/jojo/debian/pkg-haskell/packages/p/haskell-generics-sop/debian/copyright --download-version 0.1.1.2 --upstream-version 0.1.1.2 --destdir .  --rename

Since a recent upgraded, this fails with
uscan die: uscan: could not open ../haskell-generics-sop_0.1.1.2.uscan.log for append: Permission denied

I believe that uscan should either write this log file (what is it for
anyways?) to the destdir as well, or provide a way to disable writing
it.

Thanks,
Joachim


- -- Package-specific info:

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

- --- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBCHANGE_PRESERVE=yes
DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog
DEBCHANGE_AUTO_NMU=no
DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER=dput
DEBSIGN_KEYID=F0FBF51F

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers buildd-unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.18.4
ii  libc6        2.21-6
ii  perl         5.22.1-3
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  apt                         1.1.10
ii  at                          3.1.18-2
ii  curl                        7.46.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.24-1
ii  debian-keyring              2015.11.30
ii  dput-ng [dput]              1.10
pn  equivs                      <none>
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.2-1
ii  file                        1:5.25-2
ii  gnupg                       1.4.20-1
ii  gnupg2                      2.1.10-3
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.14
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.05-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.90-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.19-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.69-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.15-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.39.1
ii  man-db                      2.7.5-1
ii  patch                       2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                  0.3.4-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.27
ii  python3-magic               1:5.25-2
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.10-3
ii  unzip                       6.0-20
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1+b1
ii  wget                        1.17.1-1
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20150408cvs-1
ii  build-essential              12.1
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
ii  debbindiff                   44
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.6-3
ii  gpgv                         1.4.20-1
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.22-1
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.03-1
ii  libterm-size-perl            0.207-1+b3
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.29-1+b1
pn  mozilla-devscripts           <none>
ii  mutt                         1.5.24-1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:7.1p1-5
ii  svn-buildpackage             0.8.5+nmu1
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-26

- -- no debconf information

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