* Paul Elliott <pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com> [120219 06:54]: > Dumb question, answer not immediately obvious to me: > > After creating, or cloning a git-dpm repository, how does one get a debian > source package (.dsc, *.orig.*, *debian.*) out for testing outside of git?
Just call dpkg-buildpackage after getting the .orig.tar.* file. If the .orig.tar is stored in pristine-tar, git-dpm will try to get the currently recorded file and check it's contents if you call it as: git-dpm prepare (You can of course also just call pristine-tar checkout ../source_version.orig.tar.gz manually, if you do not have git-dpm installed). If the author did not commit the .orig.tar to pristine-tar, then you will need another way to retrieve it. (uscan sometimes works). In that case you can also call git-dpm prepare to make sure you have the correct file (after having placed it in ../). The idea of git-dpm is that a checked out debian branch behaves just like a dpkg-source -x extracted directory stored in git, implementing those merge operations git misses and some shortcuts and checks to make that manageable. Bernhard R. Link _______________________________________________ Git-dpm-user mailing list Git-dpm-user@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/git-dpm-user