Bug#685787: devscripts: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:38:13 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> in a (bit longish) thread on debian-devel at l.d.o[1] there was some
> discussion about enabling uscan to remove files from upstream archives
> according to some information given in some control file.  There was no
> real consensus about what control file to use.  The implementation below
> is based on using debian/copyright but is easy to switch to other files
> in case some other consensus might be reached.

Thanks!
 
> The attached patch does the following:

Attached are some patches based on devscipts+git plus your original
patch.

The important one is
0003-Rename-directory-in-renamed-tarball-to-pkg-newversio.patch which
renames the directory in the new tarball to 
 $pkg - $newversion $excludesuffix .orig
as recommended in DevRef 6.7.8.2.


Cheers,
gregor
 

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