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



On 15-Sep-2005, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> 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?

ISTM that the right place to be making automated changes to the
upstream source that you want reflected in the Debian source is at the
point when you do that conversion. What process are you currently
using to convert a new upstream source into a Debian source tree? That
would be the point for such an automated file-removal step.

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>

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