On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 02:37:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien+deb...@gmail.com> writes: > > > you call the rules with something (using shebang or directly) make -f > > somepath/package/debian/rules, uscan need to be excuted on > > somepath/package/. > > Oh, I see the edge case this is trying to handle. > > I'll be honest: I'm personally more inclined to just drop get-orig-source > entirely than to try to handle special cases like this. I feel like the > target has outlived its usefulness and it would be better to just enhance > uscan to support repacking scripts. (And people can still keep the target > if they want; I'm not saying people need to remove it. I just question > whether it's useful for Policy to bless it and try to standardize it, > since I'm dubious it's an important part of the workflow to try to > standardize.)
How do you plan to instruct uscan how repacking should be done ? To me, having a debian/rules target seems the correct think to do. (That is what I do with my packages with comple repacking.) That said, maybe the shell magic that could be moved inside uscan. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.