Re: q: excluding upstream files from tarball

2010-12-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 06:02:37PM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: darn, i wrote a long reply to this but then we had a power failure and the mail is gone :-( On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 05:54:36PM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: shouldn't all this exclusion be documented somewhere, e.g.

Re: q: excluding upstream files from tarball

2010-12-16 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 darn, i wrote a long reply to this but then we had a power failure and the mail is gone > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 05:54:36PM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: >> shouldn't all this exclusion be documented somewhere, e.g. in >> debian/README.source

Re: q: excluding upstream files from tarball

2010-12-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 05:54:36PM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: i have a question on how the exclusion of files from the upstream tarball can be handled and maintained. as far as i understand, you just use $ git-import-orig --filter="*proprietary*" /path/to/upstream_1.0.tar.gz which will

Re: q: excluding upstream files from tarball

2010-12-14 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 17:54:36 (CET), IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > i have a question on how the exclusion of files from the upstream > tarball can be handled and maintained. > > as far as i understand, you just use > $ git-import-orig --filter="*proprietary*" /path/to/upstream_1.0.tar.gz > > whi