Package: dgit
Version: 14.8
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

this is from the big tag2upload thread in #debian-devel. I'll just quote 
an exchange between myself an rra here:

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 08:41:26AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Marc Haber <[email protected]> writes:
>> Two minor things. My ~/.gbp.conf contains
>
>> [buildpackage]
[...]
>> tarball-dir=../tarballs
>
>> since I am not too fond of my parent directory being cluttered with build
>> artifacts. for dgit rpush, I had to move the origtargz to my git's parent
>> directory, and the build artifacts were palced there. Is that configurable
>> in dgit?
>
[...]
>I don't think there is an equivalent of tarball-dir, sadly. I also find
>this annoying. I have just been living with the orig.tar.gz in the parent
>directory causing some clutter (but not nearly as much as the build
>products).
>
>I would love it if there was an option that told origtargz to put it
>somehwere else and told dgit to find it somewhere else. Maybe there is and
>I just don't know about it?

Since noone chipped in in a week, the feature seems to be indeed 
missing.

Greetings
Marc


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Versions of packages dgit depends on:
ii  apt                        3.1.16
ii  ca-certificates            20250419
ii  coreutils                  9.7-3
ii  curl                       8.18.0-2
ii  devscripts                 2.26.5
ii  dpkg-dev                   1.23.5
ii  dput                       1.2.4
ii  git [git-core]             1:2.51.0-1
ii  git-buildpackage           0.9.39
ii  libdpkg-perl               1.23.5
ii  libjson-perl               4.10000-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl     0.430-2
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl     1.07-8
ii  libtext-csv-perl           2.06-1
ii  libtext-glob-perl          0.11-3
ii  libtext-iconv-perl         1.7-8.1
ii  libwww-curl-perl           4.17-13
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.40.1-7
ii  python3                    3.13.9-3

Versions of packages dgit recommends:
ii  distro-info-data             0.68
ii  liburi-perl                  5.34-2
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:10.2p1-3

Versions of packages dgit suggests:
ii  sbuild  0.91.5

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