Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.7.4 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I remember having reported a similar issue a couple of years ago and back then it was closed with a useless coment. This time I stumbled upon it again and still cannot find a SANE solution. With SANE, I mean user-friendly. I, as user, wish to have an option to make a test build. Without having an upstream tarball! (that is the key point. The debian branch is a fork of the upstream branch after all, it should just work). WRT dpkg-buildpackage itself, I can easily force it to act like on a native package and just build me my binary packages. But with gbp, this simple task becomes PITA: it wants me to have some upstream reference or else... (see below). Sorry, there really should be an easy and user-friendly way to let me just build it, no matter whether there is an upstream tag or not. I did RTFM and nothing ringed a bell there. If there is an easy way, please document it properly. dh_clean rm -rf debian/apt-cacher-ng.service debian/apt-cacher-ng.tmpfile dbgen/dbgenerator.* dbgen/dbupdate debconf-updatepo ... gbp:info: Orig tarball 'apt-cacher-ng_0.9.3.orig.tar.xz' not found at '../tarballs/' gbp:error: Pristine-tar couldn't checkout "apt-cacher-ng_0.9.3.orig.tar.xz": fatal: Path 'apt-cacher-ng_0.9.3.orig.tar.xz.delta' does not exist in 'refs/heads/pristine-tar' pristine-tar: git show refs/heads/pristine-tar:apt-cacher-ng_0.9.3.orig.tar.xz.delta failed Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.16.4 ii git 1:2.8.1-1 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii python-dateutil 2.4.2-1 ii python-pkg-resources 20.10.1-1 ii python-six 1.10.0-3 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii cowbuilder 0.79 ii pbuilder 0.224 ii pristine-tar 1.33 ii python-requests 2.9.1-3 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: ii python-notify 0.1.1-4 ii sudo 1.8.15-1.1 ii unzip 6.0-20 -- no debconf information -- <towo> Verdammte Toffifee-Kacke. Die untere Schale aus 'ner 48er-Packung rauswuehlen ist scheisse. <kaner> towo: ich enthalte mich mal eines kommentars <towo> Mh? <towo> Toffifee-Dev, oder was?