Dear Andreas, Am Donnerstag, den 01.05.2014, 13:34 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > > > I did some tests in the last weeks. Today I realised that the main > > > source dir is missing the appendinx "+dfsg" which is as far as I know > > > good packaging practice and was implemented in my original patch. May > > > be this should be implemented again. > > > > I guess you are talking about the top-level directory of the archive > > contents? I’m not sure. I like to keep things simple and predictable, > > Well, I have seen that habit in several get-orig-source targets and > considered it best practice. If you *intentionally* droped this > "feature" it is perfectly fine for me.
It was intentional in the sense that I didn’t deem it important enough to warrant the extra complexity, and I’d be reluctant to put it in _unless_ our users (includes you, of course) are certain that they want it. > I just thought that I could make use of it in a case when I had to > remove a file from an existing package with an existing tarball. I just > wanted to make profit from the existing download without firing up uscan > to download from scratch. I guess properly used mk-origtargz would have > been my friend to do so, but I failed to find the proper options. In that case, I believe that $ cd foo-1.2.3/ $ vim debian/copyright # add files to Files-Excluded $ mk-origtargz ../foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz should do what you want, i.e. update the already existing file, removing files now excluded. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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