Ralf Jung writes ("Bug#865905: dgit build fails with: dpkg-source: error:
missing orig.tar or debian.tar file in v2.0 source package"):
> Would be nice to have some way to automate this... really all I want is
> "whatever is the current Debian package, plus these patches of mine".
> Right now, updating involves rebasing with --interactive and then
> manually fixing the commit that touches changelog.
Quite annoying, yes.
Have you read dgit-user(7) ? That advises using gbp dch to generate a
new changelog entry.
> Btw, thanks a huge lot for dgit -- that already makes this kind of local
> patching much more pleasant than it used to be, because I no longer have
> to deal with quilt, and I am no longer affected by whatever packaging
> structure the maintainer decided to use.
That was my goal. Thanks for the kind words.
Peter Green (plugwash, of Raspbian) has some kind of gitish
autoforwardporter for patches. I keep meaning to investigate it...
> > Yes, this should work. Something is wrong. I can't tell yet whether
> > its something you've done wrong, but definitely the error message
> > should be better.
> >
> > Can you run it again with -DD ?
>
> Here you go:
Thanks.
> > $ dgit -DD build
> > + git diff --quiet HEAD
> > #massaging# dpkg-buildpackage '-i'\\'.git/' -I.git -us -uc
> > Format `3.0 (quilt)', need to check/update patch stack
> > checking for vendor-specific debian/patches/debian.series (Dpkg::Vendor
> > `current vendor')
> > checking for vendor-specific debian/patches/debian.series ((base) distro
> > being accessed)
> > checking for vendor-specific debian/patches/debian.series ((nominal) distro
> > being accessed)
> > | git rev-parse 'HEAD~0'
> > => `8f8f7fd3f17ae5bccbf3c93a0cc1bfa9587cc9f6'
> > CD .git/dgit/unpack
> > examining quilt state (multiple patches, linear mode)
> > QF linkorigs kde-config-touchpad_5.8.6-1+local_all.deb,
> > ../../../../kde-config-touchpad_5.8.6-1+local_all.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs libkfontinst5-dbgsym_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb,
> > ../../../../libkfontinst5-dbgsym_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs libkfontinst5_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb,
> > ../../../../libkfontinst5_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs libkfontinstui5-dbgsym_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb,
> > ../../../../libkfontinstui5-dbgsym_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs libkfontinstui5_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb,
> > ../../../../libkfontinstui5_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop, ../../../../plasma-desktop ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop-data_5.8.6-1+local_all.deb,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop-data_5.8.6-1+local_all.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop-dbgsym_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop-dbgsym_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop-dev_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop-dev_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local.debian.tar.xz,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local.debian.tar.xz ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local.dsc,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local.dsc ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.buildinfo,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.buildinfo ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.changes,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.changes ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local_amd64.deb ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local_source.changes,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1+local_source.changes ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1.debian.tar.xz,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.6-1.debian.tar.xz ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.6.orig.tar.xz,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.6.orig.tar.xz ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.7.1-1.debian.tar.xz,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.7.1-1.debian.tar.xz ?
> > QF linkorigs plasma-desktop_5.8.7.1.orig.tar.xz,
> > ../../../../plasma-desktop_5.8.7.1.orig.tar.xz ?
> > + env GZIP=-1n tar -zcf './plasma-desktop_5.8.7-~~DGITFAKE.debian.tar.gz'
> > -C ../../.. debian/source/format debian/rules debian/control
> > debian/changelog debian/patches
> > + sh -ec 'exec dpkg-source --no-check --skip-patches -x fake.dsc >/dev/null'
> > dpkg-source: error: missing orig.tar or debian.tar file in v2.0 source
> > package
> > dgit: failed command: sh -ec 'exec dpkg-source --no-check --skip-patches -x
> > fake.dsc >/dev/null'
> > dgit: subprocess failed with error exit status 255
Thanks.
Can you put the failing git branch somewhere so that I can repro this ?
Ian.
