Hi,
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 02:10:28AM +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> Package: git-buildpackage
> Version: 0.9.25
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> `gpg import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag=%(version)s` is great, however the
> substitution doesn't work well will repack suffixes such as +dfsg or
> +ds. Perhaps ‘%(version)s’ shouldn't unconditionally strip repack
> suffixes, but unfortunately ‘%(version%+ds%)s’ doesn't work either
>
> >>> DebianGitRepository.version_to_tag(r'%(version%+ds%)s', "1.2.3+ds")
> […]
> gbp.errors.GbpError: Failed to format %(version%+ds%)s: Missing value
> 'version%+ds%' in {'version': '1.2.3+ds', 'hversion': '1-2-3+ds'}
>
> AFAIK one can't use d/gbp.conf, instead one needs to manually run `gpg
> import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag=1.2.3 --uscan` which requires to find out
> the most recent upstream version number beforehand. It would be nice if
> d/gbp.conf had a way to specify a substitution string or template that
> works with repack suffixes.
We could fix the replacement to be empty:
https://github.com/agx/git-buildpackage/compare/master...ds
This causes trouble for people though that need this *and* to mangle the
version by other means.
Cheers,
-- Guido
>
> Thanks for maintaining gbp!
> --
> Guilhem.
