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

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 21.05.2014, 16:15 -0400 schrieb David Prévot:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 09:07:25AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 21.05.2014, 08:59 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> > > 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".
> > 
> > no opinion here, but a technical point: It wouldn’t be a mk-origtargz
> > option. mk-origtargz gets the version number either from “--version” (so
> > the caller can put it there already) or from debian/changelog (where the
> > suffix should also be included). mk-origtargz has no notion of “version
> > number as declared by upstream”, and hence the option needs to be
> > implemented in uscan.
> 
> Since one can already use opts=uversionmangle=s/$/+dfsg/ in d/watch,
> maybe there is nothing to fix at all, except perhaps documenting it. The
> behaviour change can be considered a bug in the initial implementation
> now fixed, so this bug can be closed without further action if that’s
> the case.

I agree, but Andreas said “I think editing each debian/watch
file an mangling names is a bit clumsy.”

Greetings,
Joachim

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