On 27.06.24 07:48, Andreas Tille wrote:
I'd prefer if we would not invent a file that might duplicate the content of the d/copyright Files-Excluded field - but this seems to be some implementation detail.
You have a point there. We could use "git filter-repo --invert-paths --paths-from-file <(extract-excluded- paths d/copyright)" instead.
On the other hand: if the file isn't present anyway, why would we list it there in the first place?
Brian:
For example, if an individual file contains a mixture of non-dfsg stuff and dfsg stuff that is required for building.
These cases would require some more intrusive editing. "git filter-repo" does support that: you can use a blob callback to edit individual objects.
Of course we'd have to be a bit more careful to ensure that the callback is idempotent and all that, but again I don't see a major problem here, other than a somewhat-annoying intermediate step when you pull from upstream – but we also need an annoying step when we build the next DFSG tarball, so that's no loss. :-P
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