Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> David, would a warning have been sufficient, to avoid this being a > significant inconvenience to you ? Something like this perhsps: > > debian/source/options contains a tar-ignore option. > If this option matches anything, dpkg-source's source > package will differs from your git tree, and dgit push will fail. > tar-ignore is not needed with dgit push, so you can remove it. It would have saved me some time. I don't really think "so you can remove it" follows from "is not needed with dgit push". People use dpkg-source outside dgit, and may have legitimate reasons for including a tar-ignore option. In the case of notmuch it is used to prevent a seperately downloadable performance corpus (400MB) from being included in the debian source package. There might well be other ways to accomplish the same goals, but every change required is a barrier to using dgit. d
