> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:57:41 +0100 > Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 01:29:17PM -0800, Dima Kogan wrote: > > > dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no > > > upstream tarball found at ../libdogleg_0.08.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz} > > > > > > Any reason to not use pristine-tar? > > > > I can use pristine-tar here, but I'm not completely clear on why it is > > useful. > > The upstream source comes from a tag in a git repo. This tag fully > > describes the > > sources. One could make a tarball from this tag (this is what pristine-tar > > would > > do), but why would this be a useful thing to do? Tell me if having a > > pristine-tar branch is desirable, and I'll set it up. > > Pristine-tar ensures a tarball with identical MD5 sum which is pretty > important if different people try to upload different package versions > of the same upstream version. In case somebody else than me who did the > initial upload with MD5sum abc tries to create a Debian package '*-2' > and does not download the tarball via dpkg-source he will end up with a > different upstream tarball (not byte different when unpackaging but with > different md5sum). This will result in a rejection from ftpmaster.
I'm not sure this is entirely correct. The contents of the upload are dictated by the .changes file, which is constructed by dpkg-genchanges. dpkg-genchanges has logic in it to only include the .orig.tar.gz when a new upstream version is being built (based on debian/changelog). Thus if somebody builds a *-2 package and debian/changelog says that a *-1 exists, dpkg-genchanges won't ship the *.orig.tar.gz at all, since one presumably exists on the master server already. I guess I don't like the redundant data that the pristine-tar archive contains, and would prefer not to use it without a compelling reason. > > Also, git-buildpackage can create a tag in the repo to identify particular > > package releases. One can make it with 'git-buildpackage --git-tag'. I'll do > > this now for liblbfgs. > > I know this however, in the case of an initial upload I tend to do the > tagging manually once the package was really accepted. OK. I jumped the gun with my tag then. Hopefully the package will get in. Thanks again dima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
