Package: devscripts Version: 2.19.5+deb10u1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I'm packaging phppgadmin[1]. Upstream provides several nice test suites, but they are strip from the official release tarball using a .gitattributes file with export-ignore lines[2]. Tests include a lot of files, like selenium core-lib. In turn, selenium bundle many external libraries. It makes sense to me that the final user doesn't want the full test suite deployed. So I fell unconfortable asking upstream to change their way of not releasing all this. However, I do want to get these files, at least in the source, so I can run unit tests. Uscan already provides a nice way to use upstream git. However, uscan calls "git archive" that also takes into account the .gitattributes file, so that it also removes the "/tests" files. Right now, I'm building a orig file using "git deborig" [3]. This is quite ugly. I believe it would be easy for uscan to override or ignore this .gitattributes file, like "git deborig" does. That would help a lot. Please provide a way to override / ignore / patch upstream .gitattributes. Hint: git archive have an option --worktree-attributes, that allows such override [4]. As far as I known, uscan doesn't provide a way to run code between "git clone" and "git archive". [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/phppgadmin [2] https://github.com/phppgadmin/phppgadmin/blob/master/.gitattributes [3] https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/phppgadmin/blob/debian/sid/debian/README.source [4] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/git-man/git-archive.1.en.html -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- Not present -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.2 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii fakeroot 1.23-1 ii file 1:5.35-4+deb10u1 ii gnupg 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii gpgv 2.2.12-1+deb10u1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.004-1 ii libfile-which-perl 1.23-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2 ii libwww-perl 6.36-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-6 ii python3 3.7.3-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 ii wdiff 1.2.2-2+b1 Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 1.8.2 ii at 3.1.23-1 ii curl 7.64.0-4 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-3 ii debian-keyring 2019.02.25 ii dput 1.0.3 ii equivs 2.2.0 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.21 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1 ii libgit-wrapper-perl 0.048-1 ii libgitlab-api-v4-perl 0.16-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.07-2 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.27-1 ii libstring-shellquote-perl 1.04-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii licensecheck 3.0.31-3 ii lintian 2.15.0 ii man-db 2.8.5-2 ii patch 2.7.6-3+deb10u1 ii python3-apt 1.8.4 ii python3-debian 0.1.35 ii python3-magic 2:0.4.15-2 ii python3-requests 2.21.0-1 ii python3-unidiff 0.5.4-1 ii python3-xdg 0.25-5 ii strace 4.26-0.2 ii unzip 6.0-23+deb10u1 ii wget 1.20.1-1.1 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: pn adequate <none> pn autopkgtest <none> pn bls-standalone <none> ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-1 ii build-essential 12.6 pn check-all-the-things <none> pn cvs-buildpackage <none> ii debhelper 12.1.1 pn devscripts-el <none> pn diffoscope <none> pn disorderfs <none> pn dose-extra <none> pn duck <none> pn faketime <none> pn gnuplot <none> pn how-can-i-help <none> ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1 pn libdbd-pg-perl <none> 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> pn mutt <none> ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u1 pn piuparts <none> ii postgresql-client-11 [postgresql-client] 11.6-0+deb10u1 ii quilt 0.65-3 pn ratt <none> pn reprotest <none> pn svn-buildpackage <none> pn w3m <none> -- no debconf information
