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Re: hslogger upgrade



Hi Rul,


Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2015, 14:36 -0300 schrieb Raúl Benencia:
> I've prepared an hslogger update from version 1.2.1 to version 1.2.8 which will
> help with the transition to network 2.6.

thanks!

> It was required to change the orig.tar.gz in order to delete the contrib/
> dir, which contains some binary and .java files. This was already done for
> the 1.2.1 version, and I just followed the instructions written in the
> README.source file.
> 
> I don't know if we have a workflow for uploading this kind of
> contributions. I've just pushed the package to debian mentors. One can
> download the package with dget using this command:
> 
>     dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/hslogger/hslogger_1.2.8+dfsg1-1.dsc
> 
> I'll now push the changes to the darcs repo.

That works, of course. But a maybe cleaner way would be to exclude these
files using the `Excluded-Files` feature of debian/copyright, which will
make "uscan" remove the files from the original tarball. In theory, that
will even yield identical tar-files even when run by different people.

Greetings,
Joachim

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