On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:40:38PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > 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
It's still the same as back then: don't sue pristine tar if you don't want it and tell gbp that you're fine with just picking the head of your upstrema branch. Cheers, -- Guido
