Re: Removing get-orig-source target

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2018-04-14 23:48]:

> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 08:59:51PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>
> > 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 ."?
>
> It's because by default uscan stores the tarball in the directory above (".."), 
> while get-orig-source was mandating to use the current directory (".").
>
> I think you can just drop these rules, without any further modifications. We 
> were already using uscan directly anyways.

Ok, I removes the get-orig-source targets form the four packages.  In 
order to mimic the previous behavior, users will have to specify options 
--rename, --destdir, --force-download, and --verbose by hand.

Rafael