Hi, On 15/08/16 17:46, Andrew Shadura wrote: > On 15 August 2016 at 17:24, Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 04:58:32PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>>>> So I am considering to create a Debian Source from the GIT repository. >>>>> Unfortunately, the GIT repository contains no tags, so uscan(1) seems >>>>> not be useful here. I have already submitted a ticket to the upstream >>>>> maintainer [3], but he seems to be very busy. Meanwhile, I want to step >>>>> forward. >>>>> >>>>> What is the best way to create a Debian Source from the upstream GIT >>>>> repository ? >>>> git archive would be enough, you don't need uscan for that. >>>> You can't have a debian/watch in this case, of course. >>>> >>> >>> Do you have a example or a wiki in mind ? >> Um. git archive <commit ID> | xz > foo.tar.xz, I guess. > > I did attempt to automate such tasks a couple of time for > Ajenti-related packages (I haven't finished packaging Ajenti itself — > any takers by the way?): python-catcher, python-exconsole, > python-reconfigure (have a look at debian/rules:get-orig-source). > The three of them have a d/wath file .
Jerome