On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:15, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote:
To strip upstream content completely from Debian redistribution, use
Files-Excluded-foo: in topmost section of debian/copyright - see
jsbundle-web-interfaces for an example of that.
To strip upstream content from entering the Debian git while still
getting redistributed - notably to avoid upstream git hints from
messing
with a different use of git in Debian - use git-buildpackage and its
--filter option. Again, jsbundle-web-interfaces is an example of
that.
I'd consider that as a wrok around. When you have many directories and
you want to only include a single directory, then having to manually
exclude all the directories instead of specifying all the directories
we want to exclude is a lot of manual work and not future proof if
upstream add more directories. It'd be nice if uscan do the inverse for
looking at a list of directories to exclude and provide a list of
directories to include instead.
