Quoting Pirate Praveen (2020-10-19 13:15:20) > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:15, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote: > > To strip upstream content completely from Debian redistribution, use > > Files-Excluded-foo: in topmost section of debian/copyright - see > > jsbundle-web-interfaces for an example of that. > > > > To strip upstream content from entering the Debian git while still > > getting redistributed - notably to avoid upstream git hints from > > messing with a different use of git in Debian - use git-buildpackage > > and its --filter option. Again, jsbundle-web-interfaces is an > > example of that. > > I'd consider that as a wrok around. When you have many directories and > you want to only include a single directory, then having to manually > exclude all the directories instead of specifying all the directories > we want to exclude is a lot of manual work and not future proof if > upstream add more directories. It'd be nice if uscan do the inverse > for looking at a list of directories to exclude and provide a list of > directories to include instead. I agree that that your idea would be a nice improvement to uscan, and I encourage you to file a wishlist bugreport against devscript to help make that happen. I understood the question as "How does one package a multirepo project *today*?" rather than "How does one package a multirepo project *in a possible future*?" (emphasis mine). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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