Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:39:02PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:29:22PM +0100, Jorge Bernal wrote: > > I'm not sure if this helps you but, from dpkg-source(1): > > > > -I > > If this option is specified, the filename will be passed to tar's > > --exclude >

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
* Justin Pryzby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > > Having a pristine tarball if possible is IMHO preferred above saving it > > from a bit of space in your tarball. > I agree with this, in fact. Probably best to use change it to > 'find ./debian/'. I agree, I find that solution great: - I keep

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:19:37PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:12:54PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > > > - Should I make my own .orig.tar.gz tarball whenever a new upstream > > > relea

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Jorge Bernal
I'm not sure if this helps you but, from dpkg-source(1): -I If this option is specified, the filename will be passed to tar's --exclude option when it is called to generate a .orig.tar.gz or .tar.gz file. For example, -ICVS will make tar skip over CVS directories when generating

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:29:22PM +0100, Jorge Bernal wrote: > I'm not sure if this helps you but, from dpkg-source(1): > > -I > If this option is specified, the filename will be passed to tar's --exclude > > option when it is called to generate a .orig.tar.gz or .tar.gz file. >

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Jorge Bernal
I'm not sure if this helps you but, from dpkg-source(1): -I If this option is specified, the filename will be passed to tar's --exclude option when it is called to generate a .orig.tar.gz or .tar.gz file. For example, -ICVS will make tar skip over CVS directories when generating

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:12:54PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > > - Should I make my own .orig.tar.gz tarball whenever a new upstream > > release is packaged? I'm planning to do that for 2.18. > This sounds like a good ide

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
* Justin Pryzby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > > - Should I make my own .orig.tar.gz tarball whenever a new upstream > > release is packaged? I'm planning to do that for 2.18. > This sounds like a good idea. Use a makefile rule "cleancvs" (nothing > has to depend on it, you'll just run i

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:12:54PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > - Should I simply ignore lintian, and keep the CVS entries in the > source tree? That would let the #291206 bug opened... Just close the bug, and override lintian. If upstream insists to distribute CVS dirs, well, so be it

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:12:54PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > Hello mentors. > There is an issue with the upstream tarball, it includes CVS direcories > and .cvsignore files. That's not welcome in source packages, as lintian > says and I'd like to avoid providing all that CVS stuff. > - S

How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-19 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
Hello mentors. I'm working on packaging Bugzilla 2.18 which was released a couple of days ago, that would close the #290775 whishlist item. There is an issue with the upstream tarball, it includes CVS direcories and .cvsignore files. That's not welcome in source packages, as lintian says and I'd