Bug#515856: [debhelper-devel] Bug#515856: debhelper: please implement dh get-orig-source
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:28:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > get-orig-source and watch files serve a different purpose.
> >
> > get-orig-source is used to build the .orig. tarball from the true
> > upstream one. Most package do not need that. Watch files could not do
> > that until recently.
> >
> > So the comparaison is unfair.
> >
> > What need to be checked is how many get-orig-source rules has been
> > reimplemented in term of watch files.
>
> Challenge accepted. ticharich.d.o has an unpack of rules debian/rules
> files. Most of them are world-readable. A small number (~30) are
> inaccessible, so my analysis will have an error of around 0.2%.
>
> A simple method is to just look at which of them contain the string
> "get-orig-source" and which of them contain the string "uscan" assuming
> that when both show up, get-orig-source is implemented using uscan.
One would need to check whether get-orig-source use uscan for repacking
or if it only use uscan for downloading and then repack manually.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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