On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:20:28PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:40:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > This is one of the cases that now has a better solution and more standard > > tools than the get-orig-source target, specifically Files-Excluded in > > debian/copyright. See the documentation of Files-Excluded in uscan(1). > > Files-Excluded requires to use the new copyright format, and is far less > powerful than a shell script. This is not a true replacement.
To be honest: If the fact that get-orig-source is not part of Debian policy any more would have the effect that people get motivation to replace the old copyright format by the modern one I would stop asking for re-introducing get-orig-source. > How many packages are using Files-Excluded ? Codesearch will give you the exact number. I've checked on my local clones of Debian Med packages (released and in preparation): 266 out of 901 are using Files-Excluded Remark: I'm using Files-Excluded even when there is a need to write an get-orig-source script and parse debian/coprright for it. It might be different over the whole package pool but for my use case its more than 25%. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de