[SCM] Git repository for devscripts branch, master, updated. v2.11.6-23-g6537756

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Sun May 6 18:10:35 UTC 2012


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 6537756f933afdbfd27db1652022174c54e9eb70
Author: James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 6 14:10:01 2012 -0400

    uscan: Clarify behavior of the --destdir option.
    
    Closes: #659389
    Signed-off-by: James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5bb20e0..145b1cd 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ devscripts (2.11.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       #596561)
     + Use Dpkg::IPC to run apt-cache.
     + Don't run equivs if no package information was parsed.
+  * uscan: Clarify behavior of the --destdir option.  (Closes: #659389)
 
   [ Benjamin Drung ]
   * Introduce a test suite for the scripts based on shunit2.
diff --git a/scripts/uscan.1 b/scripts/uscan.1
index ff695b7..86b3078 100644
--- a/scripts/uscan.1
+++ b/scripts/uscan.1
@@ -346,7 +346,9 @@ but do not download anything.
 Report and download.  (This is the default behaviour.)
 .TP
 .B \-\-destdir
-Path of directory to which to download.
+Path of directory to which to download.  If the specified path is not
+absolute, it will be relative to one of the current directory or, if directory
+scanning is enabled, the package's source directory.
 .TP
 .B \-\-force-download
 Download upstream even if up to date (will not overwrite local files, however)

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