Re: Flooding SVN with upstream code

[Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>]

Am Freitag, den 21.09.2007, 23:13 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:

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> The Wiki just contains a further method (besides
> 
>        make -f debian/rules get-orig-source
> 
> to obtain the original source:
> 
>        apt-get source --tar-only clustalw
> 
> (BTW, if you want to have a look into the rules file of gnumed-client
> 
>      http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/gnumed-client/trunk/debian/rules?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> 
> you see a method how to use get-orig-source without changing debian/rules
> for different upstream source versions.)

IMHO you misuse the get-orig-source target. It should be used to prepare
re-packaged package source. To get the original tarball, you can simply
use debian/watch and uscan.

Regards, Daniel