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Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source



On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:12:49 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > > So we finally have three independently developed solutions (we also have
> > > several instances of a debian/get-orig-source script in Debian Med
> > > team) and 
> > pkg-perl variant:
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/scripts.git;a=tree
> > repack.sh and repack.stub there
> Solution 4. ;-)

:)

BTW, there's even documentation on how to use it (and what else is
needed):
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/repacking.html
  
> Right that's correct (and explains Daniel's hint there is no need for
> uupdate).
> 
>  1. I propose a file debian/uscan.remove which contains regular expressions.
>     The deletion process will loop over every line and does
> 
>      rm -rf ${MAIN_SOURCE_DIR}/<expression>

I also like Jonas' idea of using d/copyright.
 
>  2. uscan just knows the option --repack.  Do we want to reuse this and start
>     deleting files in case the file debian/uscan.remove exists or do we
>     want to use an explicite option --repack-and-remove?  I have some
>     preference for just using --repack.

Hm, not sure if changing the semantics of an existing option is a
good idea.

What I like about our current way is that I -- once d/watch is
adjusted -- I don't have to do anything besides calling uscan.
 
>  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.

+dfsg

What I also like about our current scripts is
- that the suffix is configurable if needed
- that it manipulates also MANIFEST (ok, that's perl-specific)
   

Cheers,
gregor
 
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