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. -- \ "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." | `\ -- David Hume | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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