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

[Eric Shattow]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.3
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

uscan --force-repack would be helpful for testing Files-Excluded and
repacksuffix.

The way to test an repacksuffix=ds1 containing debian/watch for example-1.0/
is:

rm example*tar.gz
uscan --force-download example-1.0

This gives us example-1.0.tar.gz and example_1.0+ds1.orig.tar.gz

rm example_1.0+ds1.orig.tar.gz
uscan --force-download example-1.0

What happens now that example_1.0+ds1.orig.tar.gz is missing?

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.



-- Package-specific info:

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

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.17.25
ii  libc6        2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  perl         5.20.2-3+deb8u1
ii  python3      3.4.2-2
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                          3.1.16-1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.23
ii  debian-keyring              2015.04.10
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
ii  equivs                      2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                    1.20.2-1
ii  file                        1:5.22+15-2
ii  gnupg                       1.4.18-7
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.14
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.03-1
ii  libjson-perl                2.61-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl    2.005-4
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.11-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.64-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.08-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.30+deb8u4
ii  man-db                      2.7.0.2-5
ii  patch                       2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                  0.3.3-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.27
ii  python3-magic               1:5.22+15-2
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.9-2
ii  unzip                       6.0-16
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1
ii  wget                        1.16-1
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2
ii  build-essential              11.7
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  debbindiff                   <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  gpgv                         1.4.18-7
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                         1.5.23-3
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.7p1-5
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-19

-- no debconf information