Hi, On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 02:25:12PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > 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.
Lets wait for a wishlist bug report about this ... :-) > > 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. I'll try this in the next case - thanks for the hint. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
