Bug#687419: devscripts: Enabling uscan to choose compression method when repackaging upstream source

[Charles Plessy]

Le Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 05:09:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> as it was requested on debian-devel (for instance in[1]) an option to
> influence the compression method when a repackaging is done by uscan
> (either by using --repack option or when regarding the Files-Excluded
> field in debian/copyright - provided the patch for bug #685787 will be
> accepted) is nice to have.  I submitted a patch to do this in the Git
> repository where I also maintain the code for #685787.  The actual
> commit can be found here:
> 
>    http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/tille/devscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=4529b0d3b6e42ba0d6931d04e276fa419fcef658

Hello everybody,

I rediscovered this but report via <https://wiki.debian.org/UscanEnhancements>.
I think that it would definitely be nice to either have this option, or to
switch to XZ by default as suggested there.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan