Bug#873001: [debian-policy] get-orig-source documentation should include a pointer to devref and a minimal example
Bastien ROUCARIÈS <roucaries.bastien+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> get-orig-source should include an example.
> If you use uscan this is safe and policy compliant (maybe opening a bug
> against dpkg-dev to get this rule by default)
> cd "$(subst ",\",$(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))/.." && uscan --destdir $(subst ",\",$(CURDIR)) #"
> We have a bug report for lintian asking for checking unsafe uscan, so I
> was creating a compliant version
> A footnote is suffisant
I'm reasonably fluent in shell and make, and I still have absolutely no
idea what that does.
Is there any way that we could help people out and have the correct thing
to do be much, much simpler? Just a single command invocation?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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