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Re: artifacts in upstream, re: pristine source



On 2017-05-16 12:52 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the "pristine source" requirement (i.e. no build artifacts) in the
> > source archive: should the upstream tarball be imported to the upstream
> > branch "as is", and the tar command for orig.tar.gz should be configured to
> > omit build artifacts? Or should artifacts either be removed from or not
> > imported to the upstream branch?
> 
> Contact upstream and ask them to remove them from their VCS and source
> tarballs and put them into their binary tarballs/packages. If they
> refuse, then add Files-Excluded to debian/watch

Files-Excluded goes in debian/copyright, not debian/watch. (unless
there is some new feature I'm not aware of). It would arguably make more sense
in watch, but that's not how it works. See 
man mk-origtargz
for details.

Wookey
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