On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:47:15 +0100 Paul Gevers <[email protected]> wrote:
> During my work on castle-game-engine, where I am stripping files from the
> upstream tar ball via Files-Excluded in d/copyright, I was surprized to see
> that the compression=xz in d/watch was ignored. I had to explicitely add the
> repack option to change the compression, although it was already repacking
> the source correctly due to the excluded files.

I made the same discovery. Either uscan should be fixed or the documentation
must be updated because right now, one has to set the "repack" option manually
and cannot rely on the Files-Excluded field in d/copyright.

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