On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 07:11:36PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Control: found -1 git-buildpackage/0.7.2 > > On 20-Oct-2015, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:27:34PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > I would expect ‘git-buildpackage’ should as closely as feasible > > > mirror the overlay behaviour of the original ‘svn-buildpackage’, > > > and later ‘bzr-buildpackage’ and ‘hg-buildpackage’. > > > > > > That includes, AFAICT, constructing the overlaid source tree, then > > > calling ‘debian/rules clean’ (maybe using ‘dpkg-source’ to do it) > > > inside the resulting source tree, before continuing the build. > > > > I'd be happy to apply a patch to achieve this behaviour. > > I am only a user of the ‘foo-buildpackage’ programs, I don't > understand well enough how they are expected to work internally. > > This bug report describes the expected behaviour to fix this bug. I > don't think I currently have the competence with the code base to > implement that behaviour. > > (Incidentally, I fetched the source for ‘git-buildpackage’ and there > are no signed tags for releases; the latest release tag I see is > “debian/0.6.9” yet the current release in Debian is “0.7.2”. Have I > fetched from the wrong repository?)
Well you don't tell me where you fetched the source from but the one listed in debian/control has signed tags (including 0.7.2). Cheers, -- Guido

