On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 17:24 -0400, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > 2010/8/4 Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>: > > I'd like to get gmerlin-avdecoder included in Debian. I see that its > > quite close, it seems to me that it just needs an improved > > debian/copyright. Any reason why I shouldn't just make that change > > and submit it to the ITP? > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:45:20PM +0200, Fabrice Coutadeur wrote: > >It's not only a matter of update the copyright file: you have to repack > >the upstream tarball, to get rid of some content. I'll look after the > >original mail to see what was left (I haven't been able to do that with > >git). > > I notice the package uses CDBS. Nice ;-) > > You then probably want to make use of the upstream-tarball.mk snippet > and simply declare which files or folders needs stripping, et voilá you > get a repackaged tarball with the get-orig-source target. > > > Tell me if you need help doing it, or perhaps would like me to do it. > > > Kind regards, > > - Jonas "CDBS" Smedegaard
Sounds good to me, but I'm just jumping in on this. I'm happy to follow up on the upstream-tarball.mk stuff to finish it off, if that makes sense to y'all. .hc _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers