On 07/05/2026 00:42, Juan wrote:
Question on the gbp workflow for +ds packages: I'm creating the orig tarball manually (upstream subtree archive + LICENSE file), importing with gbp import-orig --pristine-tar, and relying on the Salsa CI fallback path (pristine-tar + --git-overlay).Is this the expected workflow, or is there a better approach for packages where the orig tarball is a manual repack?
IMO it is better if uscan directly produces the expected orig tarball, so that it is possible to import new versions with "gbp import-orig --uscan".
I never did it myself, but you should be able to call a script at the end of uscan execution to produce the exact tarball that you need, see the "Update-Script" option of debian-watch(5) [1] and the "Custom script" section of uscan(1) [2] (the uscan man page has more information about the scripts in the "Examples" section).
By the way, your debian/watch file currently looks incorrect, it advertises version=5 but it in the version 4 format.
[1] https://manpages.debian.org/trixie-backports/devscripts/debian-watch.5.en.html#Common_options [2] https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/devscripts/uscan.1.en.html#Custom_script
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