On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 09:03 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > At least some of them are not really suitable to be packaged as > separate public packages. The two submodules in question (AOcommon, > schaapcommon) are personal utility functions of the upstream authors > which are not intended for general use.
I maintain a few packages that are in a similar situation, I've actually been leaning towards packaging the code copy separately but haven't gotten around to it yet. The code copy isn't changing very often though, it is fairly mature. > how to effecitvely (with the help of upstream) detect and download > the complete source. I would use the component feature of dpkg-source v3 source packages to add additional orig tarballs, one for each of the submodules. Unfortunately the component feature doesn't support subdirectories but you can workaround that by creating symlinks in debian/rules. uscan supports the component feature, but as far as I can tell the git mode of uscan doesn't support git submodules. I suggest you file a bug or patch asking for support for that if there isn't one already. If you don't want to use uscan, you can just create a get-orig-source target in debian/rules with git clone and git archive and run that to download releases. If you want to use uscan, you will have to rely on the http mode for downloads for now. Since you don't have proper links, the html searchmode will not work for you. So you will have to either use the plain searchmode or use a pagemangle to transform the HTML to something useful. Unfortunately GitLab does everything from JavaScript so neither of those will work. I suggest you load the releases page with your browser dev tools open, work out which API is used to download the releases information and then have uscan download that and use the plain searchmode and various mangle rules to find the files. Once you have figured it out, please document it on the wiki to help others. https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch#Gitlab -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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