On 01-09-15 14:22, Ole Streicher wrote: > Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> writes: >> On 01-09-15 11:51, Ole Streicher wrote: >>> What is recommended way for the watch file that it automatically >>> generated to correct version number for a newly created orig.tar file? >> Add the repacksuffix option > > Is the empty default value for repacksuffix a good choice here? I cannot > imagine a case where one removes something from the upstream tarball and > does not add a suffix to the version. Specifically, I had the case that > I first (last year) added a few Files-Excluded and created a "+dfsg" > tarball, and when I later update with the new devscripts version, I > forgot to check the suffix and accidently created a package without the > suffix. This could be avoided if either the suffix defaults to +dfsg if > files are excluded, or if uscan fails with some error in this case. Or > Lintian would report this.
An empty value for the repacksuffix is not a good idea, in your case repacksuffix=+dfsg is appropriate. When only auto cleaned build artifacts are excluded for example, repacksuffix=+ds is more appropriate. uscan will only apped the repacksuffix if it actually excluded files from the repacked upstream tarball. uscan reports the number of files it excluded, if that's 0 the repacksuffix isn't used. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
