Package: devscripts Version: 2.21.7 Severity: normal For the linux source package, debian/watch currently refers to tarballs. But there are no signed tarballs available for release candidates. To fix this, we could use mode=git, like so:
version=3 opts="mode=git, gitmode-shallow, pgpmode=gittag, uversionmangle=s|-rc|~rc|" \ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git refs/tags/v(.*) debian There are also several files in the upstream source that we consider non-free, so in any case the upstream source needs to be repacked. The current behaviour of uscan in this configuration is: 1. Create a shallow, bare, git repository 2. Export an uncompressed tarball from git 3. Compress the first tarball with xz 4. Unpack the first compressed tarball 5. Delete the excluded files 6. Create a second compressed tarball The size of the uncompressed source is over 1 GB, and it's being compressed twice with xz, so this process takes a long time - nearly 20 minutes on my laptop. Step 3 seems to be totally unnecessary in this case, and I would like uscan to skip it if it is going to repack the tarball. Ben. -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- Empty. --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBSIGN_KEYID=AC2B29BD34A6AFDDB3F68F35E7BFC8EC95861109 DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS='-uc -us' DEBDIFF_CONTROLFILES=ALL -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.21.1 ii fakeroot 1.26-1 ii file 1:5.41-2 ii gnupg 2.2.27-2 ii gnupg2 2.2.27-2 ii gpgv 2.2.27-2 ii libc6 2.33-1 ii libfile-dirlist-perl 0.05-2 ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.006-1 ii libfile-touch-perl 0.12-1 ii libfile-which-perl 1.23-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20200505.0-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.005004-3 ii libwww-perl 6.59-1 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl 5.32.1-6 ii python3 3.9.8-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.17 ii wdiff 1.2.2-2+b1 Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 2.3.13 ii curl 7.79.1-2 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-3+b1 ii debian-keyring 2021.09.25 ii dput 1.1.0 ii equivs 2.3.1 ii libdistro-info-perl 1.1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.1 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1.1 ii libgit-wrapper-perl 0.048-1 ii libgitlab-api-v4-perl 0.26-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.10-1 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.27-1 ii libstring-shellquote-perl 1.04-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.31-1 ii liburi-perl 5.10-1 ii licensecheck 3.2.14-2 ii lintian 2.114.0 ii man-db 2.9.4-2 ii patch 2.7.6-7 ii pristine-tar 1.49 ii python3-apt 2.3.0+b1 ii python3-debian 0.1.42 ii python3-magic 2:0.4.24-2 ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2 ii python3-unidiff 0.5.5-2 ii python3-xdg 0.27-2 ii strace 5.10-1 ii unzip 6.0-26 ii wget 1.21.2-2+b1 ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: pn adequate <none> ii at 3.1.23-1.1 ii autopkgtest 5.19 pn bls-standalone <none> ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-2 ii build-essential 12.9 pn check-all-the-things <none> pn cvs-buildpackage <none> ii debhelper 13.5.2 ii diffoscope 196 pn disorderfs <none> pn dose-extra <none> pn duck <none> ii elpa-devscripts 40.5 ii faketime 0.9.8-9 pn gnuplot <none> pn how-can-i-help <none> ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1.1 pn libdbd-pg-perl <none> ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-2 pn libnet-smtps-perl <none> ii libterm-size-perl 0.211-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.34-1+b1 ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.13-1 ii mmdebstrap 0.8.1-1 pn mozilla-devscripts <none> ii mutt 2.1.3-1 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:8.7p1-2 pn piuparts <none> pn postgresql-client <none> pn pristine-lfs <none> ii quilt 0.66-2.1 pn ratt <none> pn reprotest <none> ii svn-buildpackage 0.8.7 pn w3m <none> -- no debconf information