Bug#873001: [debian-policy] get-orig-source documentation should include a pointer to devref and a minimal example

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 02:37:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > you call the rules with something (using shebang or directly) make -f
> > somepath/package/debian/rules, uscan need to be excuted on
> > somepath/package/.
> 
> Oh, I see the edge case this is trying to handle.
> 
> I'll be honest: I'm personally more inclined to just drop get-orig-source
> entirely than to try to handle special cases like this.  I feel like the
> target has outlived its usefulness and it would be better to just enhance
> uscan to support repacking scripts.  (And people can still keep the target
> if they want; I'm not saying people need to remove it.  I just question
> whether it's useful for Policy to bless it and try to standardize it,
> since I'm dubious it's an important part of the workflow to try to
> standardize.)

How do you plan to instruct uscan how repacking should be done ?
To me, having a debian/rules target seems the correct think to do.
(That is what I do with my packages with comple repacking.)
That said, maybe the shell magic that could be moved inside uscan.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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