Hi,
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:55:23PM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:26:49PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >> > > > As an unrelated idea which popped up when reading this: Do you
> >> > > > think it
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> >> > > > would be a sensible enhancement to uupdate if it could deal with a
> >> > > > list
> >> > > > of files (wildcard strings that could be feed to `rm -rf`) which
> >> > > > should
> >> > > > be removed from the upstream tarball? This could simplify
> >> > > > repackaging
> >> > > > to a certain amount.
> >> > >
> >> > > I use a script for this:
> >> > >
> [...]
> >
> >> > I'm using a more sophisticated script, that allows to filter at the same
> >> > time as the file is downloaded, without actually extracting to disk.
> [...]
>
> It's not a matter of using a better or worse script, having dpkg, or
> uupdate, or some other tool do that for us. It's a matter of
> repackaging. It's a matter of altering upstream's package for (IMHO)
> no good reason.
Please read again my initial mail. We all know that there are good
reasons to repack. Simply assume I'd write about these cases.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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