Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.6.22 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Long story. Short version: try to get a particular far branch to build. $ cd /tmp $ mkdir a b $ cd a $ apt-get source rdesktop $ cd ../b $ git clone -b surge https://www.github.com/joshudson/rdesktop rdesktop-surge $ cp -a ../a/rdesktop-*/debian rdesktop-surge/debian $ cd rdesktop-surge $ gbp buildpackage --git-upstream-branch=surge --git-ignore-branch Fails with references to cannot diff .exe files. Well duh. It appears it's trying to update the quilt with every file that changed since the last release of rdesktop, which is pretty much the opposite of what it should be doing. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? nuked all of debian/patches and converted the package type to native and ran dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.15.3+deb8u1 ii git 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-dateutil 2.2-2 ii python-pkg-resources 5.5.1-1 Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii cowbuilder 0.73 ii pristine-tar 1.33 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: pn python-notify <none> ii unzip 6.0-16+deb8u2 -- no debconf information
