Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:59:33AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>
> uscan to grow features for removing files from upstream tarballs, in a
> declarative way preferably.
That's in devscripts git and will be included in the next devscripts
version. (see [1])
> The default dh get-orig-source to invoke uscan if debian/watch is available.
Is it???
My personal opinion is that only in the cases where uscan is unable to
fetch what we are using as original tarball a get-orig-source target
makes sense. As far as I read policy this is the specification.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/UscanEnhancements
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