Author: afif Date: 2016-03-29 07:54:29 +0000 (Tue, 29 Mar 2016) New Revision: 21619
Modified: trunk/package_template/get-orig-source Log: Add note about uscan's repack option and mk-origtargz The get-orig-source script is generally useful when uscan cannot reliably retrieve upstream sources (usually because of upstream not having versioned releases or a predictable versioning scheme). Modified: trunk/package_template/get-orig-source =================================================================== --- trunk/package_template/get-orig-source 2016-03-27 15:18:04 UTC (rev 21618) +++ trunk/package_template/get-orig-source 2016-03-29 07:54:29 UTC (rev 21619) @@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ # --> currently it is assumed the script is called in the # source directory featuring the debian/ dir +# Excluding files and repacking archives +# -------------------------------------- +# See also mk-origtargz(1) and the --repack option to uscan(1), which +# honor the Files-Excluded list in debian/copyright. +# That may be all you need, especially since the repack option can be set +# in debian/watch. + # For an example how to fetch source from sourceforge SVN see # git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/kmer-tools.git _______________________________________________ debian-med-commit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-commit
