Bug#755851: [uscan] repacked tarballs not renamed with +dfsg

[Caitlin Matos]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.14.2
Severity: normal
User: devscripts at packages.debian.org
Usertags: uscan

The repacked tarballs that are created when a Files-Exclude line is in d/copyright are no longer being renamed as +dfsg.

I realize that bugs 748465 & 753772 already document this problem. However, the discussion and proposed solution seem to have steered off-track. While documenting how to rename it with uversionmangle is a good idea, it does not really solve the actual problem. And, as others have pointed out in those threads, rewriting all related watch files is not a great solution.

So, I have opened this bug to redirect attention to the underlying
problem. I felt a separate bug was needed since the others have morphed
into documentation issues, which is a separate issue (though
inter-related).

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER=dput
BTS_INTERACTIVE=yes
DEBDIFF_DIRS=yes
DEBDIFF_CONTROLFILES=ALL
DEBDIFF_SHOW_MOVED=yes
DEBSIGN_KEYID=46E39DC9
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="--display-experimental --pedantic --verbose"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.17.10
ii  libc6        2.19-7
ii  perl         5.18.2-6
ii  python3      3.4.1-1
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                          3.1.14-1
ii  curl                        7.37.0-1+b1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.23
ii  debian-keyring              2014.04.25
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
ii  dupload                     2.7.0
ii  equivs                      2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                    1.18.4-2
ii  file                        1:5.19-1
ii  gnupg                       1.4.18-2
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.13
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.03-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.61-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.04-3
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl    2.005-4
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.11-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.62-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.07-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.25
ii  man-db                      2.6.7.1-1
ii  patch                       2.7.1-5
ii  patchutils                  0.3.3-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.22
ii  python3-magic               1:5.19-1
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                       6.0-12
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1
ii  wget                        1.15-1+b1
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential              11.6
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.5-4
ii  gpgv                         1.4.18-2
ii  heirloom-mailx [mailx]       12.5-2
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.07-1
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
pn  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
ii  mutt                         1.5.23-1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.6p1-6
ii  svn-buildpackage             0.8.5
pn  w3m                          <none>

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