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Re: Request for Sponsoring: spaced



On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 01:42:22PM +0000, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Just a comment about this after taking a quick look: You can directly
> exclude a binary from the orig tarball before import by listing the
> binary in the 'Files-Excluded:' section of your debian/copyright.
> With a few adaptations in your watchfile [1] it is then removed during
> the download via uscan so you don't have to use an additional patch to
> remove it.
> 
> Not sure you were aware of this but it's pretty useful.

... and should be used if there are no good reasons to do otherwise.

Sascha, thanks for checking

    Andreas.

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