Re: uscan, get-orig-source, and making upstream tarball DFSG-free

[Nicolas Boullis <nboullis@debian.org>]

Hi,

[ Hmmm, looks like my mailer ate my message... :-( ]

For a package of mine, I need to remove a non-free file from every 
upstream tarball. Doing it by hand is certainly suboptimal, and I 
might forget to do it.

I thought about using uscan, with a hand-made script instead of the 
common uupdate. But that script would be local to the package, and kept 
in the diff.gz part of the source package. Hence, it is not executable 
in a freshly-unpacked source package, which means I probably can't use 
this solution. Am I missing something? Is there a workaround?

I also thought about using the get-orig-source target of debian/rules to 
get the newest upstream tarball and cut it down. But as far as I can 
see, this target looks quite redundant with debian/watch. Are they 
supposed to interoperate in some way? Is there anyone who actually uses 
this target?


Thanks in advance,

Nicolas