today's UEC report

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> If it is a snapshot then
>
>   bzr merge-upstream <upstream branch> [ -r <revision to snapshot> ] \
>        --version <upstream version>
>
> will use a "bzr export" of that revision as the tarball. Unfortunately there
> is no way to cope with any changes that are needed to a bzr checkout to get
> the tarball (DFSGing, autoreconf etc.) We don't have a standard way to specify
> this sort of thing in packaging that we can build upon. If this is needed for
> the package the currentl best way to achieve this is to create the tarball
> yourself and use the first form, but that just brings us in a complete circle.

Right, and I think that's where we are, unfortunately.

I can *almost* get what I need with:
 bzr export eucalyptus_1.6+bzr911.orig.tar.gz

What I really need is a --exclude option, to drop the debian dir out
of this tarball, at which point, this would be pretty much just what I
want.

:-Dustin