Bug#819111: uscan: option for disabling repacking

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Thu Mar 24 00:29:58 UTC 2016


On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:46:18PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> uscan repacks zip and xpi archives automatically, but AFAICS there's no
> option to turn off this feature.

$ 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.  Over the years, as other mechanisms appeared,
--no-symlink remained the magic “off” switch.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>



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