On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:12:49 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > So we finally have three independently developed solutions (we also have > > > several instances of a debian/get-orig-source script in Debian Med > > > team) and > > pkg-perl variant: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/scripts.git;a=tree > > repack.sh and repack.stub there > Solution 4. ;-)
:) BTW, there's even documentation on how to use it (and what else is needed): http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/repacking.html > Right that's correct (and explains Daniel's hint there is no need for > uupdate). > > 1. I propose a file debian/uscan.remove which contains regular expressions. > The deletion process will loop over every line and does > > rm -rf ${MAIN_SOURCE_DIR}/<expression> I also like Jonas' idea of using d/copyright. > 2. uscan just knows the option --repack. Do we want to reuse this and start > deleting files in case the file debian/uscan.remove exists or do we > want to use an explicite option --repack-and-remove? I have some > preference for just using --repack. Hm, not sure if changing the semantics of an existing option is a good idea. What I like about our current way is that I -- once d/watch is adjusted -- I don't have to do anything besides calling uscan. > 4. In case something was removed the version string will be appended by > '~dfsg' to express the fact that the content of the original source > was changed. +dfsg What I also like about our current scripts is - that the suffix is configurable if needed - that it manipulates also MANIFEST (ok, that's perl-specific) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: The Dubliners: Champion at keeping them rolling
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