control: tags -1 +wontfix Hi, On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Package: git-buildpackage > Version: 0.9.10 > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: origin-kali > > I'm often sponsoring packages and I usually use "git clone" (and not "gbp > clone") so that I only have the "master" or "debian/master" branch in my > local repository, however the "upstream" and "pristine-tar" branches are > in the remote repository ("origin"). > > pristine-tar copes just fine with this and fallsback to use the data from > origin/pristine-tar but if the compression method is not the usual gzip, gbp > buildpackage will fail. I have to tell it "--git-compresionn=xz" to make > the call succeed. It would be nice if the code that looks up the compression > method in the pristine-tar branch was smart enough to also fall back > to looking into origin/pristine-tar.
What about debian/pristine-tar, salsa/pristine-tar, foo/pristine-tar and other variants? What if these have different versions already to pick from? If somebody comes up with a good heuristic and sane defaults this might be an option but I consider using gbp clone way safer. Cheers, -- Guido
