Package: dgit Version: 3.10 Severity: normal The transcript below demonstrates the problem. I get the same failure on chiark (jessie), with a clean environment and bogus $HOME (to eliminate my dotfiles).
[stratocaster /tmp/mdw]dgit clone gtk+3.0 canonical suite name for unstable is sid starting new git history downloading http://ftp.debian.org/debian//pool/main/g/gtk+3.0/gtk+3.0_3.22.16-1.dsc... last upload to archive: NO git hash % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 386 100 386 0 0 8327 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 8391 Use of uninitialized value $got in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/dgit line 2545. [stratocaster /tmp/mdw rc=255] This appears to mean that $checkhash->() failed and it was trying to report this; I don't know what might have caused that or what I might be able to do about it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages dgit depends on: ii apt 1.4.6 ii ca-certificates 20161130+nmu1 ii coreutils 8.26-3 ii curl 7.52.1-5 ii devscripts 2.17.6 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii dput 0.12.1 ii git [git-core] 1:2.11.0-3 ii git-buildpackage 0.8.12.2 ii git-core 1:2.11.0-3 ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.96-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24 ii libjson-perl 2.90-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-3 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.10-1 ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-5+b4 ii libwww-perl 6.15-1 ii perl 5.24.1-3 ii realpath 8.26-3 Versions of packages dgit recommends: ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.4p1-10 Versions of packages dgit suggests: pn sbuild <none> -- no debconf information