mk-origtargz (Was: Problem with *.zip archives)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 02:25:12PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Well, I have seen that habit in several get-orig-source targets and
> > considered it best practice.  If you *intentionally* droped this
> > "feature" it is perfectly fine for me.
> 
> It was intentional in the sense that I didn’t deem it important enough
> to warrant the extra complexity, and I’d be reluctant to put it in
> _unless_ our users (includes you, of course) are certain that they want
> it.

Lets wait for a wishlist bug report about this ... :-)
 
> > I just thought that I could make use of it in a case when I had to
> > remove a file from an existing package with an existing tarball.  I just
> > wanted to make profit from the existing download without firing up uscan
> > to download from scratch.  I guess properly used mk-origtargz would have
> > been my friend to do so, but I failed to find the proper options.
> 
> In that case, I believe that
> $ cd foo-1.2.3/
> $ vim debian/copyright # add files to Files-Excluded
> $ mk-origtargz ../foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz
> should do what you want, i.e. update the already existing file, removing
> files now excluded.

I'll try this in the next case - thanks for the hint.

Kind regards

   Andreas.

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