[Build-common-hackers] Bug#494141: Bug#494141: no way to use get-orig-source with cdbs without breaking policy

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:55:27PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Am Thursday, 7. August 2008 schrieb Noah Slater:
>> Adding a get-orig-source target to a package using cdbs does not allow for
>> invoking the target from any directory as cdbs assumes that CURDIR is set
>> to the root of the package when assigning variables in buildvars.mk.
>>
>> Sample errors you get trying to invoke get-orig-source from outside the
>> root:
>
>Yeah, you're right.  But I think get-orig-source is kind of obsolete.  
>Everyone is using uscan now.

I still use get-orig-source. And have extended it to strip non-DFSG 
stuff.

Any pointers to why it should be abandoned in favor of plain uscan?


  - Jonas

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