Bug#801165: devscripts: [uscan] Option --force-repack helpful for testing Files-Excluded and repacksuffix

Osamu Aoki osamu at debian.org
Wed Dec 2 14:06:38 UTC 2015


Hi,

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:40:24AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
...
> > We have to delete example-1.0.tar.gz or there's no easy way to force the
> > repack. This is not good if the example-1.0.tar.gz is large or we want to test
> > this function offline.
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I think we do not need any new command.  Use mk-origtargz directly if
> you wish to do test as you described.
> 
> But I also understand, the current state of uscan is not optimal.
> --no-download option should enable your wish to test repack, signature
> check, ...  This is what I am working on ... #740366 #747412

I checked with --no-download --no-signature ... it seems to work now :-)

Osamu



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