gmerlin-avdecoder redux

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Wed Aug 4 21:24:19 UTC 2010


2010/8/4 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at 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

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