On 12-08-18 at 10:19pm, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 1. The new field Files-Excluded in debian/copyright contains
> a space separated list of regular expressions.
> The deletion process will loop over every expression
>
> rm -rf ${MAIN_SOURCE_DIR}/<expression>
Copyright file format emplicitly emphasizes that the globbing is not
shell style but find style.
I believe it is better to loop over either of these expressions:
find ${MAIN_SOURCE_DIR}/* -path <expression> -delete
find ${MAIN_SOURCE_DIR}/* type f -name <expression> -delete
The latter is when item does not contain "/".
> 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.
Suffix should be configurable.
I use ~dfsg by default, ~dfsg1 and bumping numbers for multiple
repackagings, and only +dfsg when the repackaging happens after a
non-repackaged version was released into Debian.
Reason for this is that there is a slight chance upstream may re-release
same upstream version repackaged to fix a purely tarball-related issuem
and I would then have room for using that proper version instead of
using epoch or add a bogus .0 to the version.
> For the implementation of this it waqs suggested to
>
> use Debian::Copyright;
That initial test by Gregor makes me worry if Debian::Copyright parser
might be too strict: Writing should be strict but parsing relaxed -
Copyright file format with undefined fields added should *not* be
treated as broken. Perhaps there are other surprises waiting to happen
:-/
- Jonas
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