Hi,
On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 06:50:36AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Source: git-buildpackage
> Version: 0.9.10
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The Debian GNOME team uses gbp import-orig with the upstream-vcs-tag
> feature to include full upstream commit history. Some GNOME modules
> still use old CVS-style tagging conventions. [1] While I've asked the
> maintainers to switch to a more modern format, some maintainers don't
> want to change.
> 
> For those that use a modern format, we can add something like this to
> debian/gbp.conf to make things easier on the Debian packager:
> upstream-vcs-tag = %(version)s

Something similar to cb03293bd7e95e3e6a56947dff79c2afad8e3701 would be
needed then.
 -- Guido

> 
> or like this (using the v prefix like v3.30.0 popular in Github projects):
> upstream-vcs-tag = v%(version)s
> 
> But this won't work when the version number uses _ instead of . Please
> provide a way to make this work so we don't need to manually specify
> --upstream-vcs-tag=GNOME_SETTINGS_DAEMON_3_30_0 when importing
> gnome-settings-daemon 3.30.0.
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/tags
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha
> 

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