Re: uscan, get-orig-source, and making upstream tarball DFSG-free
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:44, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:43:10AM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> > 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?
>
> What I did, in an unofficial package, is to include a
> debian/rules:get-orig-source target which simply calls a script,
> created in ./debian/ by the .diff.gz. A prerequisite for that rule is
> "permissions", which chmod 755 all the scripts that rules calls. My
> repack script just wgets a statically named file (suboptimal), unpacks
How do you ensure that the builders of that source package wont get a changed
file with the same name or that the download will complete before the build
get started ? See #325161. Yes, I know that the patch is rather incomplete.
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