On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 07:19:58PM +0100, Ross Gammon wrote:
$ gbp import-orig --pristine-tar ../gxplugins_1.0_src.tar.bz2 What will be the source package name? [gxplugins] What is the upstream version? [1.0] gbp:error: The orig tarball contains .git metadata - giving up.
The upstream indeed mistakenly included some .git folders in the manually created gxplugins_1.0_src.tar.bz2. This is not related to submodules. If you want to use this tarball just repack it removing .git folders.
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