Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.19.0.5 Control: block 908417 by -1 Recently a dgit user complained that if their package has a tar-ignore in debian/source/options, things go wrong. See #908417.
dgit needs to run dpkg-source in such a way that all things in the input directory end up in the source package, except precisely the top-level .git directory. To do this it passes a slew of -I and -i options to dpkg-source. But if the source package contains a tar-ignore option in debian/source/options, this does not work, because the -I options stack up. Simply having the user remove tar-ignore from the source package's debian/source/options is IMO best, but as you see in #908417 that does have downsides. If dpkg-source provided a --reset-tar-ignore option which cancelled all previous --tar-ignore options (including those from debian/source/options), then dgit could pass that option and everything would work right. So, please could you provide such an option. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
