On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:35:07PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote:
> >
> > > Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that
> > > any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching?
> >
> > Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the
> > .orig.tar.gz to exclude the upstream debian directory if it helps
> > you to maintain the package in Debian.
> You could have uscan call an alternate script which does the
> repackaging.
Yes, that is one option I was considering, since I wanted to have a
debian/watch file and use uscan. However, I had imagined that perhaps
others had already encountered this issue and knew of a nice way out.
Otherwise, I suppose I could keep a personally modified copy of uupdate
in the non-upstream debian directory that will remove the upstream
debian directory immediately after unpacking the new archive.
Meanwhile, I've opened a wishlist bug (http://bugs.debian.org/278797)
to add an option to uupdate to allow removal of the upstream debian
directory immediately after unpacking the new upstream archive.
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