Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:41:24PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > 2. There was one vote from Gregor Hermann to use the --repack option
> > of uscan. I personally admit that I do not fully agree with
> > Gregor that this means changing the semantics of an existing option.
> > We are just repackaging and without the additional information in
> > debian/copyright the functionality remains exactly the same.
>
> Sorry if I was unclear here: actually I don't really like to re-use
> --repack because the "new" --repack would do something else (i.e:
> more) than the "old" repack.
>
> > Gregor made also the remark that he likes the pkg-perl teams
> > method of doing things because once d/watch is adjusted you don't
> > have to do anything besides calling uscan. I consider the method
> > I like to suggest here as serving the very same purpose
>
> Sure, I guess I will get used to adding "--$option" instead of just
> using plain uscan, if needed :)
When reading this I wonder whether we actually will need any command
line option at all? Shouldn't it rather be the other way around that we
want to *prevent* repackaging in some cases if Files-Excluded is set and
otherwise just to the repackaging as a default. In other words: If it
is documented in debian/copyright that some files will be excluded the
proper way to act for uscan would be actually to exclude the files. We
rather would need an option
uscan --no-exclusion (or --fetch-original ???)
to prevent uscan from doing so. BTW, we also would need an according
USCAN_NO_EXCLUSION (or whatever name we decide) for /etc/devscripts.conf
and ~/.devscripts.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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