On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:35:07PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: > > > > > Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that > > > any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? > > > > Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the > > .orig.tar.gz to exclude the upstream debian directory if it helps > > you to maintain the package in Debian. > You could have uscan call an alternate script which does the > repackaging.
Yes, that is one option I was considering, since I wanted to have a debian/watch file and use uscan. However, I had imagined that perhaps others had already encountered this issue and knew of a nice way out. Otherwise, I suppose I could keep a personally modified copy of uupdate in the non-upstream debian directory that will remove the upstream debian directory immediately after unpacking the new archive. Meanwhile, I've opened a wishlist bug (http://bugs.debian.org/278797) to add an option to uupdate to allow removal of the upstream debian directory immediately after unpacking the new upstream archive. -- Encrypted Mail Preferred: Key ID: 8527B9AF Key Fingerprint: E1B6 40B6 B73F 695E 0D3B 644E 6427 DD74 8527 B9AF Information: http://www.gnupg.org/ ASCII ribbon campaign: () against HTML email /\ against Microsoft attachments Information: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
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