get-orig-source usage

Jaromír Mikeš mira.mikes at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 20:50:31 UTC 2014


2014-06-30 21:32 GMT+02:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com>:

>
> On 30 Jun 2014 14:00, "Jaromír Mikeš" <mira.mikes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I noticed usage of "get-orig-source" in rules files.
> > I understand that it is used for repacking orig tarball.
> > But don't know how to use it ... uscan ignore it :(
> >
> > What I am missing?
>
> It looks to me that with uscan the target has become obsolete.
>
> Use the Files-Excluded field in debian/copyright and just use uscan.
>
> That is what I think the new way should be like. What do others think?
>

I tried this on zam-plugins package ...
I want to remove upstream .gitignore file

Added this to debian/copyright file:

Files-Excluded: .gitignore

But no succeed with

$ uscan
or
$ uscan --repack

:(

mira
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