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Re: debian/watch: uupdate or orig-tar.sh?

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
> Le 27/03/2013 10:49, Torsten Werner a écrit :
>
>> I recommend orig-tar.sh because I've invented the name but probably not
>> the underlying idea. Uupdate is from the old age where version control
>> systems have not been used for Debian packages and BSD folks told us
>> that CVS is the perfect technology for that. ;-)
>
> Would it be worth packaging it (as part of an existing tool chain or
> independently) to avoid the duplication of the file in every source package?

I haven't check your exact case, but I use jh_repack whenever I can:

http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/docs/tutorial.html

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