Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released)
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I fully share your view that the optimal situation would be if uscan
> would be some kind of wrapper around whatever code would be needed to
> create the source tarball. Since I share this view I once started to
> hack Files-Excluded into uscan and I'm very happy about the git mode.
> In other words: If we could get some kind of "ultra-flexible" uscan the
> sense of the get-orig-source replacement as discussed above would be
> completely fullfilled and that would be an optimal outcome of the
> situation I was not so happy about that get-orig-source was droped from
> policy.
If that happens, please ensure that the uscan --report-status and
--safe options continue to not run code from the source package.
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bye,
pabs
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