OK. I unmerged and keep this bug separate. On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 08:04:22AM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Hi Osamu et al., > > Le 31/01/2016 03:42, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:08:40AM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > >> Package: devscripts > >> Version: 2.15.10 > > > >> I believe that uscan should either write this log file (what is it for > >> anyways?) to the destdir as well, or provide a way to disable writing > >> it.
This is used to check if upstream tarball is changed or not. Even *tar..gz -> *.tar.gz repacking may result in different file. Also automatic file removal is another cause for differences which needs checking. This is used to check such thing happend or not. > > Do you really insist to have an option to disable this log? If not, > > let's go with this pending fix for Bug #809662. > > Pretty please yes, and extra points if that option becomes the default > behavior (i.e., the conservative way, don’t let uscan write a log file > unless explicitly asked to). Having a bunch of almost empty useless > files in my development directory is not something I’m expecting. > > $ cat ../*uscan.log > # uscan log > # uscan log > # uscan log > # uscan log > # uscan log > […] OK. I see your point. Let me think. _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
