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?

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