[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 03:37:54PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:55:27PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Yeah, you're right.  But I think get-orig-source is kind of obsolete.
>> Everyone is using uscan now.

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>Here is a sample from couchdb, one of the Erlang packages:
>
>  get-orig-source:
>          uscan --force-download --repack --rename --destdir .

Now I remember why I avoided uscan:  Wouldn't the above get _newest_ 
upstream source, instead of the source corresponding to newest changelog 
entry?


  - Jonas

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