Bug#819111: uscan: option for disabling repacking

[Jakub Wilk]

* Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org>, 2016-03-25, 01:04:
>>>uscan repacks zip and xpi archives automatically, but AFAICS there's 
>>>no option to turn off this feature.
>
>I am curious what Jakub is trying to achieve.

Download upstream sources (which used to be the primary purpose of 
uscan). More specifically, I'm using uscan in get-orig-source target of 
src:openinbrowser, where I have custom repacking code.

>$ uscan --help | grep no-symlink
>    --no-symlink   Don't call mk-origtargz
>
>The name is a relic from when the only option was setting up a properly 
>named symlink.

Right, that's not a very intuitive name... Also, I was grepping for 
"repack", not for "mk-origtargz", as the latter is mostly an 
implementation detail.

>Are you using "uupdate" or "gbp-import-orig --uscan"?

No.

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Jakub Wilk