Hi,
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 12:09:00PM +0200, Birger Schacht wrote:
> i'm trying to package a software using git and importing upstream
> releases from git tags. There are files in the git tree that have to be
> removed to make the package dfsg compliant (what would normally happen
> through repackaging). I figured i can just create a git tag
> upstrea/0.1.2-ds which does exclude the non dfsg compliant files. But
> now i'm not sure how to create that tag- should i create a branch of the
> tag, remove the files and tag that branch? Is there a best practice how
> that branch should be called? I didn't find anything regarding this
> situation in DEP14.
As far as I know Files-Excluded is just about repackaging since it
is consumed by uscan which is downloading and optionally repackaging
a tarball. Is there any reason not to use uscan as intended and than
use
gbp import-orig --pristine-tar downloaded_repackaged_tarball
?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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