Hi, On Fri, 1 May 2015 09:57:19 +0200 Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:34:07 -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > Out of curiosity, why is uscan trying to remove files from a tarball to > > start with? That seems way out of scope for a program that supposedly > > helps look for new upstream releases of software. > > You might like to seek for "Files-Excluded" in man uscan. Its a new > feature (initialised by me - so I'm biased) to normalise aout half of > the manually written get-orig-source targets that are just removing > files from the original tarball to clean the source from files with > non-free licenses, binary chunks etc.
is anyone working on this bug in tar? A contributor to the Haskell Group has just tripped over it, and it would be really nice if the Files-Excluded feature would work reliably. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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