Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.7.4 Severity: normal I'm not using pristine-tar and the relevant tarball does exist but git buildpackage fails to read the correct version and tries to find a version called None
$ gbp buildpackage --git-builder="sbuild -A -s -c jessie -d jessie" --git-verbose gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup'] gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-bare-repository'] gbp:debug: fakeroot debian/rules clean [] [] dh clean --with sphinxdoc,python2 dh_testdir debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean make[1]: Entering directory '/home/neil/code/lava/packaging/alioth/lava-server' dh_auto_clean rm -f -r lava_server.egg-info doc/_build dist/ .idea/ jquery.cookie.js rm -f -r versiontools-*.egg/ [ ! -f doc/Makefile ] || make -C doc/ clean [ ! -f doc/v1/Makefile ] || make -C doc/v1/ clean [ ! -f doc/v2/Makefile ] || make -C doc/v2/ clean [ ! -f man/Makefile ] || make -C man/ clean debconf-updatepo make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/neil/code/lava/packaging/alioth/lava-server' dh_clean gbp:debug: ['git', 'status', '--porcelain'] gbp:debug: ['git', 'symbolic-ref', 'HEAD'] gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', 'refs/heads/master'] gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify', 'HEAD'] gbp:debug: ['git', 'ls-tree', 'HEAD'] gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium', 'HEAD:debian/changelog'] gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium', 'HEAD:debian/source/format'] gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', 'refs/heads/pristine-tar'] gbp:debug: Looking for orig tarball 'lava-server_None.orig.tar.gz' at '../tarballs/' gbp:info: Orig tarball 'lava-server_None.orig.tar.gz' not found at '../tarballs/' gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', 'refs/heads/pristine-tar'] gbp:warning: Pristine-tar branch "pristine-tar" not found gbp:debug: /usr/bin/pristine-tar [] ['checkout', '/home/neil/code/lava/packaging/alioth/build-area/lava-server_None.orig.tar.gz'] gbp:error: Pristine-tar couldn't checkout "lava-server_None.orig.tar.gz": pristine-tar: no pristine-tar branch found, use "pristine-tar commit" first lava-server_None.orig.tar.gz clearly is not going to exist. $ git show --pretty=medium HEAD:debian/changelog |head -n20 lava-server (2016.4.post1) unstable; urgency=medium * Production hotfix release * Add kvm-aarch32 to supported VMs type. -- Neil Williams <[email protected]> Wed, 18 May 2016 09:44:34 +0100 lava-server (2016.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New production release Add support for python-django-debug-toolbar Deleting V1 filters now cascade delete image chart filters. Reduce the number of SQL queries used on common pages. Improve scheduler iterative performance. Add support for deleting unused tokens Stop runaway healthchecks in V2. Migrate option_list to argparse for django 1.8 and later. Allow authentication with result export in V2 Drop references to Ubuntu beyond 2016.9.post1 Implement omitting individual results from queries in V2 ../tarballs/lava-server_2016.4.post1.orig.tar.gz -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.16.4 ii git 1:2.8.1-1 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii python-dateutil 2.4.2-1 ii python-pkg-resources 20.10.1-1 ii python-six 1.10.0-3 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii pbuilder 0.224 ii pristine-tar 1.33 ii python-requests 2.9.1-3 ii sbuild 0.69.0-2 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: ii python-notify 0.1.1-4 ii sudo 1.8.15-1.1 ii unzip 6.0-20 -- no debconf information

