Hi, It took me a little bit of effort to understand your wish.
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:41:03PM -0700, Eric Shattow wrote: > Severity: wishlist > uscan --force-repack would be helpful for testing Files-Excluded and > repacksuffix. If we invoke uscan without using --no-symlink, uscan always call mk-origtargz with --symlink option. If mk-origtargz finds files matching Files-Excluded, mk-origtargz behaves as --copy (See its manlage). If the repack without having a matiching Files-Excluded is objective to see if repacksuffix works or not, just use --repack as the argument of uscan, it passes it to mk-origtarg. There is no need to option such as --force-repack as I see this situation. > The way to test an repacksuffix=ds1 containing debian/watch for example-1.0/ > is: > > rm example*tar.gz > uscan --force-download example-1.0 > > This gives us example-1.0.tar.gz and example_1.0+ds1.orig.tar.gz > > rm example_1.0+ds1.orig.tar.gz > uscan --force-download example-1.0 > > What happens now that example_1.0+ds1.orig.tar.gz is missing? Since you still have example-1.0.tar.gz, uscan stop there and do nothing > We have to delete example-1.0.tar.gz or there's no easy way to force the > repack. This is not good if the example-1.0.tar.gz is large or we want to test > this function offline. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I see. I think we do not need any new command. Use mk-origtargz directly if you wish to do test as you described. But I also understand, the current state of uscan is not optimal. --no-download option should enable your wish to test repack, signature check, ... This is what I am working on ... #740366 #747412 Osamu