Hi, as you might have noticed I implemented some way to teach uscan excluding certain files from upstream tarball to make it dfsg compatible (see bug #685787). When trying to get rid of some get-orig-source scripts I noticed that besided some file removals I need to execute some extra code. This is basically fetching some extra files like sources for documentation, uncompressed JS files etc from external sources (http, VCS).
IMHO this could be done quite simple if we would enable uscan to call a script say debian/uscan.hook (feel free to propose a better name). The rules for applying the hook would be very similar to the Files-Excluded behaviour (and would also involve the compression suggestion I had given in my previous mail). In short: If such hook is found a repackaging of an upstream tarball is done and uscan tries hard to create a "reasonable" tarball with features of potential undirtying and naming conventions as given in DevRef ยง6.7.8.2. BTW, I'd be happy if more people would test the file removal feature using Files-Excluded with the new uscan which is available in Git[1]. Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/tille/devscripts.git;a=blob;f=scripts/uscan.pl;hb=HEAD -- http://fam-tille.de -- 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/20120829065509.gb22...@an3as.eu