Control: severity -1 minor
Control: retitle -1 want diffstat and docs ref in "mismatch" error message
I'm sorry that the error message is less useful than it could be. IMO
it should:
* Include a diffstat
* Refer to dgit(7)
* Tell you the object name of the reconstructed tree object,
so that you can run `git diff' etc. yourself
I'll respond to your specific situation with some hopefully helpful
info:
Matthew Vernon writes ("Bug#809516: dgit: sbuild followed by push results in
"perhaps you forgot to build" error"):
> I am trying to push a new version of rsbackup, which I am building with
> sbuild; the previous upload was not done with dgit.
I have reproduced the problem. The cause is that your git tree
contains changes against the .orig.tar.gz which cannot be represented
by dpkg-source.
Much of this is discussed in dgit(7) under these headings:
FILES IN THE SOURCE PACKAGE BUT NOT IN GIT - AUTOTOOLS ETC.
FILES IN THE SOURCE PACKAGE BUT NOT IN GIT - DOCS, BINARIES ETC.
In your case I got the following diffstat:
Makefile.in | 820 -----------
aclocal.m4 | 1454 --------------------
autogen.sh | 0
config.aux/ar-lib | 270 ----
config.aux/compile | 347 -----
config.aux/config.guess | 1420 --------------------
config.aux/config.sub | 1799 -------------------------
config.aux/depcomp | 791 -----------
config.aux/install-sh | 527 --------
config.aux/missing | 215 ---
config.aux/test-driver | 139 --
config.h.in | 97 --
configure | 7239
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
doc/Makefile.in | 533 --------
doc/decay.pdf | Bin 107496 -> 0 bytes
scripts/coverity | 0
scripts/systest | 0
src/Makefile.in | 1510 ---------------------
tests/Makefile.in | 978 --------------
tools/Makefile.in | 927 -------------
20 files changed, 19066 deletions(-)
I think there are three classes of problem file here:
* autotools (as discussed in dgit(7))
* doc/decay.pdf (as discussed in dgit(7))
* The two files in scripts/ which are executable in git but
non-executable in the tarball. Upstream tarball build
bug perhaps ?
I hope one of the options in dgit(7) is suitable. Good luck.
Ian.
