Package: devscripts Version: 2.17.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Sometimes it is necessary to repack an upstream tarball when it contains material which violates the DFSG. In the case that whole files need to be removed, this is adequately handled by mk-origtargz. However, there are other situations which cannot be handled simply by excluding files, for example, removing non-DFSG ICC profiles from images [0]. The watch file can specify a script to be called by uscan instead of uupdate. Current practice seems to be to use this script to call a repack script to perform custom repacking. For example, the Perl Team use [1]. There are a couple of problems with this approach however: * the repacksuffix in the watch file is not passed to the repack script * the <target> tag isn't set to the name of the repacked tarball Thus there is no agreement between uscan/watch and the repack script about what the repacked tarball should be called. The impact of this is that when a command such as gbp import-orig --uscan --pristine-tar is called, the original tarball is commited to the pristine branch rather than the repacked tarball. Thanks. Christopher Hoskin [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00312.html [1] https://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/repacking.html#3._REPACKAGING%2C_in_the_olden_days -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBFULLNAME="Christopher Hoskin" DEBEMAIL="christopher.hos...@gmail.com" DEBSIGN_KEYID=7FF2B8B8 DEBSIGN_PROGRAM=gpg2 DSCVERIFY_KEYRINGS="~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg" -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (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 1.18.23 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii perl 5.24.1-1 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 1.4~rc2 ii at 3.1.20-3 ii curl 7.52.1-3 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-2+b1 ii debian-keyring 2017.01.20 ii dput 0.12.0 ii equivs 2.0.9+nmu1 ii fakeroot 1.21-3.1 ii file 1:5.29-3 ii gnupg 2.1.18-6 ii gnupg2 2.1.18-6 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.14 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.23 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1 ii libgit-wrapper-perl 0.047-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.06-2 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.20-1 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libwww-perl 6.15-1 ii licensecheck 3.0.29-1 ii lintian 2.5.51 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patch 2.7.5-1+b2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii python3-debian 0.1.30 ii python3-magic 1:5.29-3 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 ii strace 4.15-2 ii unzip 6.0-21 ii wdiff 1.2.2-2 ii wget 1.18-5 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii adequate 0.15.1 ii autopkgtest 4.3 pn bls-standalone <none> ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3 ii build-essential 12.3 pn check-all-the-things <none> ii cvs-buildpackage 5.26 pn devscripts-el <none> pn diffoscope <none> pn disorderfs <none> pn dose-extra <none> pn duck <none> pn faketime <none> pn gnuplot <none> ii gpgv 2.1.18-6 pn how-can-i-help <none> ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1 ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-1 pn libnet-smtps-perl <none> pn libterm-size-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 pn libyaml-syck-perl <none> pn mozilla-devscripts <none> ii mutt 1.7.2-1 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.4p1-7 ii piuparts 0.76 pn ratt <none> pn reprotest <none> ii svn-buildpackage 0.8.6 ii w3m 0.5.3-34 -- no debconf information
