Bug#618535: devscripts: uscan should offer generic --repack-with argument

2011-03-20 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:15:07AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: One approach would be to have a --repack-with argument to uscan that would indicate a user-supplied command to run. the command would take two arguments: filename and version -- filename would be the name of the file that

Bug#618535: devscripts: uscan should offer generic --repack-with argument

2011-03-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/20/2011 10:00 AM, James Vega wrote: Wouldn't specifying this script as the third parameter on the watchfile line, where uupdate commonly is, be the same thing? $ cat watch version=3 some://url/pattern debian repackscript so it is. I'm marking #618535 as closed. I should have

Bug#618535: devscripts: uscan should offer generic --repack-with argument

2011-03-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.71 Severity: wishlist Some upstream source needs to be re-packed and it is not in one of the generic forms (zip, lzma, etc) that uscan is capable of re-packing automatically into a .tgz. This include upstream source that needs to have non-free components