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Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released



On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 10:40:42AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> writes:
> > Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> >> 4.9
> >>     The ``get-orig-source`` rules target has been removed.  Packages
> >>     should use ``debian/watch`` and uscan instead.
> >
> > Especially for this, my ‘debian/rules’ files thank you.
> 
> I have some packages where the version is not encoded in the file name,
> but must be extracted from the file content. Shall one keep
> get-orig-source here to be consistent, or what would be the right
> solution here?

get-orig-source merely isn't described by the Policy any more, it is no
different from an arbitrary private target you have in debian/rules.


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