On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:58:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > > > As suggested by Ian on -devel (see attachment), it would be nice to have > > a way to remove files during unpack of a source package to hide non-free > > files from our users without stripping them from the original tarball. > > > I also prefer this approach over repacking upstream files so let's > > implement this feature. > > I'm pretty sure ftp-master isn't going to allow source packages with > non-free content in the main archive regardless of whether that content is > hidden on unpack (I certainly wouldn't if I were them), so implementing > this is kind of pointless for Debian.
What if the list of binary components was part of the watch file instead; so that new upstream sources could be automatically stripped of those non-free bits by uscan right after download. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100813130134.ba42fd33.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com
