On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 08:41:16PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> reopen 861004
> retitle 861004 Give folks a way to not care about dpkg-source and git
> interaction
> severity 861004 wishlist
>
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:22:23PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > 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
>
> There might be times where you don't want to follow correct packaging
> practice, especially when getting started and you first want to get a
> package so havng a mode for this might help. Patch forthcoming.
>
Docs about the new mode are here:
http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.special.html#GBP.SPECIAL.SLOPPYTARBALL
Cheers,
-- Guido
