On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:56:13AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 15-Sep-2005, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > For a package of mine, I need to remove a non-free file from every > > upstream tarball. Doing it by hand is certainly suboptimal, and I > > might forget to do it. > > > > I thought about using uscan, with a hand-made script instead of the > > common uupdate. But that script would be local to the package, and > > kept in the diff.gz part of the source package. Hence, it is not > > executable in a freshly-unpacked source package, which means I > > probably can't use this solution. Am I missing something? Is there a > > workaround? > > ISTM that the right place to be making automated changes to the > upstream source that you want reflected in the Debian source is at the > point when you do that conversion. What process are you currently > using to convert a new upstream source into a Debian source tree? That > would be the point for such an automated file-removal step.
I'm currently using uscan with a simple debian/watch file that calls uupdate to do the "conversion". That's why I thought about using a han-made script instead of using uupdate; it seems to work quite fine, except that I have to change its permission by hand... Cheers, Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
