Bug#831521: implement capability to run custom mk-origtargz

2017-08-31 Thread Christopher Hoskin
Package: devscripts Version: 2.17.6+deb9u1 Followup-For: Bug #831521 Just thinking aloud here: I wonder if it would make sense to create a debhelper plugin to add a get-orig-source sequence, with a sequence of commands, e.g. something like: dh_uscan dh_unpack dh_repack dh_exclude_files dh_strip

Bug#831521: implement capability to run custom mk-origtargz

2017-08-30 Thread Christopher Hoskin
Package: devscripts Version: 2.17.6+deb9u1 Followup-For: Bug #831521 Thanks for looking into this. My second thought is that there's a lot of useful functionality in mk-origtargz (determining the correct form of the tarball from debain/changelog, converting from zip or xpi, excluding files based