watch file problem

[Ferenc Wagner]

"Russ Allbery" <rra at debian.org> writes:

>  version=3
>  opts=dversionmangle=s/\.dfsg\d+$// \
>      http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/downloads/shibboleth/cppsp/(2[\d.]+)/ \
> -    shibboleth-sp-([\d.]+)\.tar\.gz
> +    shibboleth-(?:sp-)?([\d.]+)\.tar\.gz

Hi Russ,

http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shibboleth-sp2.html says:

    The package has a debian/watch file, but the last attempt to use
    it for checking for newer upstream versions failed with an error.

Have you got an idea why?
-- 
Cheers,
Feri.