Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> writes: > IMHO this is a mostly-solved problem. > > You can feed hashes of the offenders to "git filter-repo > --strip-blobs-with-ids ‹filename›". This operation is idempotent and > deterministic. > > If we add these hashes to a file, let's say d/source/dfsg-filtered, we > can thus reproducibly generate a dfsg-compliant version of whichever > upstream commit or tag we want, and of course generate a tarball from > there if required.
Sometimes files have to be edited and/or created in order to make the tar ball DFSG complaint and not fail build. Just deleted a list of files is not sufficient. For example, if an individual file contains a mixture of non-dfsg stuff and dfsg stuff that is required for building. For more details, see this really old discussion, from 2008. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00233.html I hope I haven't just opened a can of worms here :-) -- Brian May @ Debian
