Re: automatically maintaining/tracking repackaged upstream tarballs
Paul Wise dijo [Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 07:09:53AM +0800]:
> > Given all the recent issues with popular packages containing minified
> > JavaScript and other sourceless files, I'm hoping to get feedback from
> > people about how the solution can be generalized to help as many
> > developers as possible.
>
> You may have missed the fact that uscan now supports removing files
> specified by the Files-Excluded field in debian/copyright when it
> repacks archives.
Just note that, in order for Files-Excluded to work, you have to
declare the current version of the copyright format. Some days ago, I
had quite a bit of head scratching after I added this header to
Collabtive¹, only to find I was using still the DEP5 version instead
of the 1.0 Copyright Format version².
(hint: I'd have rather appreciated uscan or lintian to tell me, "it
seems you want to do something, but I prefer not to interpret you
unless I'm sure)
¹ http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/collabtive.git;a=blobdiff;f=debian/copyright;h=eaee1b11fc099cadaa71484ffc501f7e84403aa8;hp=03d8473ee1d9ded60d036bbb11a4ef155836672f;hb=e17be66192df19836c0f255adb31cf72f0ac9cbd;hpb=4036925713d23ee6d42a5b9cf9925333ee4d9d9a
² http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/collabtive.git;a=blobdiff;f=debian/copyright;h=0794435d3875c6ed21ccb678f0e82e667db67e3d;hp=eaee1b11fc099cadaa71484ffc501f7e84403aa8;hb=4827cce4b98c38779d61855da371857693c8df50;hpb=e17be66192df19836c0f255adb31cf72f0ac9cbd
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