On Tuesday 11 March 2014 09:07:43 Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 11.03.2014, 10:34 +0800 schrieb Paul Wise: > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > nor mess with tarball repackaging (which I consider ugly, a cludge, and > > > to be avoided if possible) > > > > Recent versions of uscan can automatically repack upstream tarballs to > > remove files, just include a Files-Excluded line in debian/copyright. > > ah, that’s news to me and has been on my secret wish list for long (and > wasn’t the case when I last looked)! That solves half of my issues with > this. > > It’s not well documented in man uscan, which only tells me how to > disable that feature. > > Do you (or anyone) know if it repacks the file consistently? I.e. will > two developers, who both use uscan to get the original tarball for the > same version and with the same File-Excluded get identical results? IIRC, it uses an invocation of find to do the job, so I guess the answer is yes. -- Wiki participants are, by nature, a pedantic, ornery, and unreasonable bunch. So there's a camaraderie here we seldom see outside of our professional contacts. http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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