On 08/18/2016 10:41 PM, Christopher Hoskin wrote: > Is there a team preference for a particular approach?
I think Files-Excluded and orig-tar.sh are the most used approaches for the Java packages. We have probably more orig-tar.sh scripts than Files-Excluded fields for historical reason since the File-Excluded field is relatively recent. I tend to use Files-Excluded when the upstream tarball is easy to get (for example a GitHub project downloaded from a release tag). On the other hand orig-tar.sh is convenient when there is no upstream tarball (for example if upstream provides only a svn repository to be checked out) or when files need to be replaced (for example for replacing minified JavaScript files). jh_repack should probably be deprecated, Files-Excluded is a better alternative. Emmanuel Bourg
