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  • Repack source lacking root directory?

    From Christian Kastner@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 16 08:40:01 2023
    Hi,

    I have an upstream source that ships files as a ZIP file, with no root directory in that file. So contents are something like

    file1.txt
    file2.c
    subdir/file3.h
    file4.tx

    uscan will automatically repack the ZIP, but I couldn't figure out the
    magic incantation necessary in debian/watch to move these to a root
    folder 'srcname'.

    Can anyone help? Is this even possible with a plain debian/watch, or
    will it need a custom repacker?

    Best,
    Christian

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  • From Mattia Rizzolo@21:1/5 to Christian Kastner on Wed Aug 16 13:30:02 2023
    On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:23:14AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
    uscan will automatically repack the ZIP, but I couldn't figure out the
    magic incantation necessary in debian/watch to move these to a root
    folder 'srcname'.

    Why would you need to do so?

    dpkg-source handles tarballs with no top-level directory just fine,
    AFAIK.

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  • From Christian Kastner@21:1/5 to Mattia Rizzolo on Thu Aug 17 12:40:01 2023
    On 2023-08-16 13:28, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
    On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:23:14AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
    uscan will automatically repack the ZIP, but I couldn't figure out the
    magic incantation necessary in debian/watch to move these to a root
    folder 'srcname'.

    Why would you need to do so?

    dpkg-source handles tarballs with no top-level directory just fine,
    AFAIK.

    Huh, bad assumption on my part. Indeed, it works fine.

    Thanks!
    Christian

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