On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 01:03:12PM -0700, Joshua Hudson wrote:
> I expect the tool to treat the provided git repository as the master
> source. This should result in not needing to fetch a source tarball at
> all.
It does. There's no need to fetch a tarball.
>
> This tool was recommended to me for how to update a debian package to
> take a new upstream source. Apparently it can't actually do that.
It can and we're doing it all the time. Check
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html#GBP.IMPORT.UPSTREAM-GIT
Cheers,
-- Guido
