That's a mistake from the packaging the previous maintainer did, he used git but I don't use a VCS for the package.
On 23 Mar 2012, at 17:48, Samuel Bronson <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: intercal > Version: 29:0.29-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Thank you for including the Vcs-*: fields in your package; I was > delighted to see debcheckout succeed on such a (presumably) obscure > package! > > Unfortunately, you seem to have forgotten to push all of the branches > and tags, so it won't actually build: > > ,---- > | naesten@hydrogen:~/hacking/debian/intercal% git-buildpackage > | dh_testdir > | dh_testroot > | rm -f build-stamp > | if [ -e Makefile ]; then /usr/bin/make clean; fi > | /usr/bin/make -C doc clean > | make[1]: Entering directory `/home/naesten/hacking/debian/intercal/doc' > | rm -f *.ps [a-z]*.txt *.refs* ick.in* ick.txt ick.htm ick.pdf > | rm -rf html > | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/naesten/hacking/debian/intercal/doc' > | rm -rf temp > | dh_clean configure.ac configure config.log config.status Makefile > | ickspec config.cache > | fatal: Not a valid object name upstream/0.28 > `---- > > I find that running "git push <dest> --all" and "git push <dest> --tags" > tends to do the job fairly well. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages intercal depends on: > ii dpkg 1.16.2 > ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.6.2-4 > ii gcc-4.6 [c-compiler] 4.6.3-1 > ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-8 > ii libc6 2.13-27 > > intercal recommends no packages. > > intercal suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

