On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:01:34PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > 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. Git-buildpackage (and I'm sure other tools too) have filter expressions that can handle this when importing new upstream versions (e.g. via --uscan). The configuration can be shipped in debian/gbp.conf so in case of team maintenance all have the same filter. Cheers, -- Guido
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