Re: Removing get-orig-source target

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

Rafael

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2018-04-13 17:04]:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 01:01:56PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> > Debian Policy 4.1.4 mandates the removal of the get-orig-source target from 
> > debian/rules.  There are four packages that use it: dynare, octave, 
> > oxctave-ltfat, and octave-tsa.  If there are no objections, I remove the 
> > get-orig-source target from these packages.
>
> To be precise, it does not mandate the removal, it just no longer mention it 
> (so you are free to keep it, especially if for some reason it's not possible to 
> replace it by a debian/watch).

Thanks for the clarification.  Does this mean that we can upgrade 
Standards-Version to 4.1.4 without removing the get-orig-source target ?

> I am ok with the removal, as long as debian/watch+uscan achieves the same (and 
> I think it does in our packages).

These are the current commands in the get-orig-source targets of the 
relevant packages:

dynare:
       uscan --force-download --rename --destdir .

octave:
       uscan --force-download --rename --destdir .

octave-ltfat:
       uscan --verbose --force-download --repack --compression=xz

octave-tsa:
       uscan --verbose --force-download --repack-compression xz

(Note that the rule for octave-tsa is buggy.)

Options "repack" and "compression" can be put into opts in debian/watch. 
However, this is not the case for options "force-download", "rename", 
"destdir", and "verbose".

What is the use of "--destdir ."?

Rafael