On 12/08/10 20:18, Russ Allbery wrote: > Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org> writes: >> On 12/08/10 16:21, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+deb...@ortolo.eu> writes: >>>> Ian Jackson wrote: > >>>>>> I'd much rather you could just write in your .dsc a set of glob >>>>>> patterns for files to remove, somehow, which dpkg-source would >>>>>> remove when you unpacked it (unless you told it not to). > >>>> Well, I see no .dsc field that would allow such a thing. dpkg-source >>>> has the options to ignore files when building a source package, but >>>> this is the closest match I found, but I have only used it for a >>>> couple of months, not developped it. :-) > >>> I think Ian was saying that he'd like dpkg-source to add that feature, >>> not that it already existsed today and was something you could use. > >> CDBS currently has get-orig-source rule which does that. You just define >> a variable with a space separated list of globs and it excludes them >> when fetching the source from the web. > > I believe that's implemented by repacking the upstream source to omit > those files from the *.orig.tar.gz, which is exactly what Ian doesn't want > people to have to do.
As I understood it, Ian doesn't want people to waste time on it. Filling a glob on the .dsc is the same work as putting the same glob in debian/rules. While it is a bit more cumbersome to override than his proposed method, it can still be easily done. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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