Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.7.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
When uscan is used to generate an upstream tarball, it filters out files listed in the Files-Excluded: section of the debian/copyright file and appends +dfsg to the tarball's version. This can then be imported to the packaging repository with gbp import-orig. Nowadays, many upstreams do not ship tarballs. When preparing the Debian packaging for such a project, it is convenient to simply clone upstream's git repository and add a branch to that for Debian packaging. Suppose that upstream tags a release 1.2.3 in the git repository. The Debian package maintainer must then manually delete the files listed in Files-Excluded: and then tag a new version 1.2.3+dfsg. gbp can then create a tarball of this tag and commit it to the pristine-tar branch. It would be great if gbp could produce the 1.2.3+dfsg tag itself by reading debian/copyright and excluding the Files-Excluded: files. -- Sean Whitton
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