On 2020-11-22 00:01:03 +0100 (+0100), Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/21/20 3:36 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> * Use git to generate upstream tarball, as the PyPi module doesn't include > >> the test folder. Using the gen-orig-xz in debian/rules, as using the > >> repack function of debian/watch doesn't make sense (why downloading a > >> tarball that would be later on discarded? I'm open to a better solution > >> which would be uscan compatible though...). Switch d/watch to the github > >> tag therefore. > > > > you can track the github project instead of pypi (man uscan has the > > details); this is was i'm doing recently, as most of the time PyPI > > releases dont have all the files we need (tests, or test data, or > > documentation, or a combination of that) > > Hi. > > Thanks, I know that. However, that's not my problem. The issue is that > uscan --download will download the tarball from github, and I'd like to > replace that by what I'm doing in debian/rules, which is using git and > git submodule, to fetch things using git, and create a tarball. Sure, I > could use a repack script in debian/watch, but then uscan will continue > to first download the archive from github, and *then* only, I can > discard what's been downloaded, and fetch stuff from github with git. > > Is there a solution here, so that uscan uses a repack script directly > without attempting to download first? Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but can't you just use mode=git (see uscan manpage for details on this feature). I assumed this is what was being suggested. -- Jeremy Stanley
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