get-orig-source usage

[Ross Gammon]

On 06/30/2014 10:50 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> 2014-06-30 21:32 GMT+02:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com
> <mailto:fsateler at gmail.com>>:
> 
> 
>     On 30 Jun 2014 14:00, "Jaromír Mikeš" <mira.mikes at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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
> 
> :(

I normally use:
$ uscan --verbose --force-download
So I can see what is happening, and to overwrite in case there was any
funny business with another version of the tarball.

I think you need to have a recent version of uscan for the
"Files-Excluded" bit to work. That could be the problem - it fooled me
the first time.

Recording how you did the repacking in get-orig-source is probably handy
for the person that packages the next upstream version. Then you can
just do:
$ debian/rules get-orig-source
when you want to download the latest and repack (although you have to
check there are no new files that need to be excluded).

Regards,

Ross

> 
> mira
> 
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