Bug#748465: Renaming repacked tarball (was Re: Excluded-Files feature reimplemented)

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Wed May 21 06:59:06 UTC 2014


Hi James,

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:25:32PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> Given the above, how about a “--repack-suffix …” that gets passed
> through to mk-origtargz?  So “uscan … --repack-suffix +dfsg1” or a
> similar mk-origtargz invocation repacks and adds +dfsg1 to the upstream
> version.
> 
> This could possibly be exposed by a new opts value in the watch file
> itself -- opts=repacksuffix=+dfsg1

Both options (--repack-suffix to uscan (non-exclusive) or
opts=repacksuffix=+dfsg1 are perfectly fine for me since I like it
more than the "default mangling".

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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