Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.9.13 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
pristine-tar is a recommends, not a depends, so it wasn't installed on my system and it took quite some time to figure out why the buildpackage was failing. Wouldn't a depends make more sense (for those who've disabled automatic installation of recommends)? If not, could the error message provide a hint regarding installing the pristine-tar package? Greetings, Olaf $ gbp buildpackage gbp:info: Creating /home/olaf/mariadb-10.3_10.3.12.orig.tar.gz gbp:error: Error creating mariadb-10.3_10.3.12.orig.tar.gz: Pristine-tar couldn't checkout "mariadb-10.3_10.3.12.orig.tar.gz": execution failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'pristine-tar': 'pristine-tar' -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.19.2 ii git 1:2.20.1-1 ii man-db 2.8.5-1 ii python3 3.7.1-3 ii python3-dateutil 2.7.3-1 ii python3-pkg-resources 40.6.2-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: pn cowbuilder | pbuilder | sbuild <none> ii pristine-tar 1.45 ii python3-requests 2.20.0-2 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: pn python3-notify2 <none> ii sudo 1.8.27-1 pn unzip <none> -- no debconf information
