Bug#526443: [uscan] repack should be a valid argument in the opts line in debian/watch

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Samstag, den 20.09.2014, 22:41 -0400 schrieb James McCoy:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:03:16AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > I would like to request, that the watch format 4 should supports
> > "repack" in the opts line, so people are not forced to use it on the
> > command line to get a .orig tarball. Any objections here?
> 
> What about putting USCAN_REPACK=yes in your ~/.devscripts?

>From the description this doesn't sound like a solution: it says, it
repacks also bzip2 archives, although these are valid tarball formats
for dpkg. So is this parameter description wrong? If yes, when does it
work?

I want a parameter that works on a case-by-case base, not something that
always does a repack. And given the fact, that "pasv" is also a valid
opts line parameter, it would be logical to allow repack here too. Ditto
for the compression=... parameter.

Regards, Daniel