Help offered with xwax package

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 10/08/16 10:40, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> 2016-08-10 10:55 GMT+02:00 Daniel James <daniel at 64studio.com>:
>> uscan works, but there is a slight discrepancy because of the tilde in
>> the Debian version:
>>
>> $ uscan --report-status
>> Processing watchfile line for package xwax...
>> Newest version on remote site is 1.6-beta2, local version is 1.6~beta2
>> xwax: Newer version (1.6-beta2) available on remote site:
>>   https://github.com/xwax/xwax/archive/1.6-beta2.zip
>>   (local version is 1.6~beta2)
> 
> Yes that's the reason we have to rename 1.6- to 1.6~ because 1.6-beta2
> would later considered higher version then 1.6 but 1.6~beta2 lower.
> Actually we should repack ( to get rid of upstream .gitignore file and
> use our .gitignore file ) and rename.

You don't actually need to do that (and arguably you should not repack
orig tarballs unless you need to). For source format "3.0 (quilt)",
dpkg-source contains a set of regexes for files which are automatically
ignored when generating the final source package. .gitignore (and .git/)
are on the list so any changes you make to upstream's .gitignore are
completely ignored by dpkg-source.

The exact list can be found near the top of this file:
/usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Source/Package.pm

James

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