Package: devscripts Version: 2.11.1 Severity: minor Howdy,
The documentation of the --repack option on the uscan(1) manual page says After having downloaded an lzma tar, xz tar, bzip tar or zip archive, repack it to a gzip tar archive, which is still currently required as a member of a Debian source package. There are source packages in the Debian archive that use other compression methods (e.g., 7kaa). The attached patch removes the incorrect clause, though it's probably better to make the --repack option only convert from formats that aren't allowed in the archive. -- Matt Kraai https://ftbfs.org/kraai
>From 3483cf4beafaf22fcb92a299065f1c2bd9d71d41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Kraai <kr...@debian.org> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:48:00 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Correct documentation of uscan(1)'s --repack option Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kr...@debian.org> --- scripts/uscan.1 | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/uscan.1 b/scripts/uscan.1 index 15e529a..088646d 100644 --- a/scripts/uscan.1 +++ b/scripts/uscan.1 @@ -375,8 +375,7 @@ Instead of symlinking, rename the downloaded files to their Debian .TP .B \-\-repack After having downloaded an lzma tar, xz tar, bzip tar or zip archive, -repack it to a gzip tar archive, which is still currently required as a -member of a Debian source package. Does nothing if the downloaded +repack it to a gzip tar archive. Does nothing if the downloaded archive is not an lzma tar archive, xz tar archive, bzip tar archive or a zip archive (i.e. it doesn't match a .tlz, .tlzm, .tlzma, .tar.lzma, .txz, \^.tar.xz .tbz, .tbz2, .tar.bz2 or .zip extension). The unzip package must be -- 1.7.7.2
