On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:59:10AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Anyway, I thought I wanted a separate file, but then I remembered that > > uscan already uses 'debian/watch' for configuration. The syntax of a > > watch file is pretty awkward, being based on (logical) lines rather > > than stanzas, and using "opts=foo=1,bar=2" instead of something like > > "foo=1 bar=2", but it does seem like the right place to put additional > > uscan configuration. And the watch file format can presumably be > > fixed, as it is explicitly versioned. > > Sounds sensible.
Uhmm, that's the first case in my memory that you drifted away from one of your reasonable proposals. ;-) > How about, in addition to looking for excludes in DEP-5 copyright files, > have uscan also support an exclude option, so that e.g. > compass-susy-plugin could alternatively have this debian/watch file: > > version=4 > opts=dversionmangle=s/\~dfsg.*// \ > exclude="docs/source/fonts/* \ > docs/source/javascripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js \ > docs/source/javascripts/modernizr-2.5.3.min.js" \ > https://github.com/ericam/susy/tags .*/tarball/v?(\d[\d\.]+) While I suggested in my initial proposal a separate file (not actually debian/watch but this solution seems to be comparable to a separate file) I think we are lacking the feature of documentation what was removed and what not and from my (and Jonas' previous point of view debian/copyright is a very good place to do this). > > Hence if you're going to automate repacking, I just wanted to suggest > > generating a README file to put into the repacked tarball. And as I > > said, I haven't heard of anyone else doing this, so perhaps I'm the > > only one who thinks it makes sense. > > Sorry, I missed the detail of it being in the tarball. I find adequate > the common practice of renaming the tarball (and then documenting the > why it was done externally from the tarball), so let's just agree to > disagree on this one :-) In my practice (several years ago) I used the *.orig.tar.gz files from a Debian mirror to build my own system inside $HOME on a HP-UX machine. The advantage of using the Debian mirror was that you find everything you need in one place. For this purpose it would have been helpful to have a short notice what was changed right inside the changed tarball. I admit that is a rare use case these days - but it might be nice anyway. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120824092810.gg10...@an3as.eu
