Problem with *.zip archives

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Joachim,

sounds good.

I think it should be clarified how / whether you can propagate some of
the new options (like --package to ignore Files-Excluded, --copy) can
be propagated from uscan to mk-origtargz.

I like the idea to separate these two tools and let uscan making use of
it.

Thanks for your work on this

      Andreas.

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:18:52PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2014, 21:19 -0400 schrieb James McCoy:
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:48:35PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2014, 17:01 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:06:51PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > > > > Also I’m beginning to think that we should have a "prepare-orig-tar"
> > > > > command (with a good name to be found) that has the repack, exclude and
> > > > > rename functionality; it is useful independent of uscan (I might get my
> > > > > tarballs by some other means).
> > > > 
> > > > ... like fetched from VCS in a get-orig-source target.  Yes, I'm all for
> > > > it.  This would be helpful.
> > > 
> > > If I get a second second,  preferably from a devscripts admin, I can
> > > work on it.
> > 
> > Seconded.  More modularity in the scripts would be much appreciated.
> 
> How about this (I started with the manpage, to serve as a specifiation
> and TODO list, it is on the branch mk-origtargz):
> 
> 
> MK-ORIGTARGZ(1)                                     MK-ORIGTARGZ(1)
> 
> NAME
>        mk-origtargz - Rename upstream tarball, optionally changing
>        the compression and removing unwanted files.
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        mk-origtargz [OPTIONS] foo-1.0.tar.gz
>        mk-origtargz --help
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        mk-origtargz renames the given file to match what is
>        expected by dpkg-buildpackage, based on the source package
>        name and version in debian/changelog. It can convert zip to
>        tar, optionally change the compression scheme and remove
>        files according to Files-Excluded in debian/copyright. The
>        resulting file is placed in debian/../...
> 
>        If the package name is given via the --package option, no
>        information is read from debian/, and the result file is
>        placed in the current directory.
> 
>        mk-origtargz is commonly called via uscan, which first
>        obtains the upstream tarball.
> 
> OPTIONS
>    Metadata options
>        The following options extend or replace information taken
>        from debian/.
> 
>        --package package
>            Use package as the name of the Debian source package,
>            and do not require or use a debian/ directory. This
>            option can only be used together with --version.
> 
>            The default is to use the package name of the first
>            entry in debian/changelog.
> 
>        -v, --version version
>            Use version as the version of the package. If version is
>            a full Debian version, i.e. contains a dash, the
>            upstream component is used.
> 
>            The default is to use the version of the first entry in
>            debian/changelog.
> 
>        --exclude-file glob
>            Remove files matching the given glob from the tarball,
>            as if it was listed in Fiels-Excluded.
> 
>            This option amends the list of patterns found if
>            debian/copyright. If you do not want to read that file,
>            you will have to use --package.
> 
>    Action options
>        These options specify what exactly mk-origtargz should do.
>        The options --copy, --rename and --symlink are mutually
>        exclusive.
> 
>        --symlink
>            Make the resulting file a symlink to the given original
>            file. (This is the default behaviour.)
> 
>            If the file has to be modified (because it is a zip
>            file, because of --repack or Files-Excluded), this
>            option behaves like --copy.
> 
>        --copy
>            Make the resulting file a copy of the original file
>            (unless it has to be modified, of course).
> 
>        --rename
>            Rename the original file (This is the default
>            behaviour.)
> 
>            If the file has to be modified (because it is a zip
>            file, because of --repack or Files-Excluded), this
>            implies that the original file is deleted afterwards.
> 
>        --repack
>            If the given file is not in compressed using the desired
>            format (see --compression), recompress it.
> 
>        --compression [ gz | bzip2 | lzma | xz ]
>            If --repack is used, or if the given file is a zip file,
>            ensure that the resulting file is compressed using the
>            given scheme. The default is gz.
> 
>        -C, --directory directory
>            Put the resulting file in the given directory.
> 
> SEE ALSO
>        uscan(1), uupdate(1)
> 
> AUTHOR
>        mk-origtargz and this manpage have been written by Joachim
>        Breitner <nomeata at debian.org>.
> 
> Debian Utilities             2014-04-12             MK-ORIGTARGZ(1)
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim
> 
> -- 
> Joachim "nomeata" Breitner
> Debian Developer
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