Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#817951: Simple helpers for handling orig tarballs for
packages where upstream's git is the canonical source"):
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 04:48:15PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > 2. dgit should have a subcommand gen-orig-tar which generates the orig
> > tarball for version X-1 by looking at the git tag X (or vX;
> > configurable). [1] gives a git invocation that could be used.
> >
> > For the sake of simplicity it might not be worth extending these
> > features to deal with packages with more than one orig tarball.
>
> I'd like to have a go at implementing this, but I first need to know
> which of the following you prefer:
>
> 1. Ship a standalone fakeorig.pl in /usr/share/doc/dgit/examples, and
> make reference to it in the tutorial manpages.
>
> 2. Add a new dgit subcommand, `dgit fakeorig` which does the work.
I'm trying to understand exactly what this command would do.
Is it just a fairly thin wrapper around git-archive ?
Why is it not sufficient to let gbp-build generate the orig tarball,
as implemented in dgit 2.9 as the fix for #841094 ?
Thanks,
Ian.
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