Hi Guido,

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:48:57PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:41:40 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:38:21AM +0100, Csillag Tamas wrote:
> > > If you agree that it should be done this way (as you can read in the 
> > > paragraph
> > > above) I am happy to work on uscan then the patch for git-buildpackage 
> > > can be
> > > better.
> > I think extending uscan is the only sensible way to go. Scraping command
> > output is way to fragile. 
> 
> I completely agree.

I talked with Gregor and created a blogpost which is (i think) good summary.
http://cstamas.hu/blog/posts/Standard_mechanism_for_repacking_upstream_tarballs_in_debian/

TL;DR: Here is proposal for modifying uscan 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685787
(by others, I also sent a bugfix a few minutes ago)

Regards,
  cstamas
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