Hi,
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 03:41:31PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Bug#901303: git-buildpackage: gbp import-orig
> --uscan skips unrelated files importing repacked tarball"):
> > Quoting Ian Jackson (2018-06-19 12:29:06)
> > > For now I have refrained from merging this bug with #831870 but maybe
> > > the gbp maintainers would like to do so.
> >
> > Whatever. I consider it release criticial *somewhere* that repackaging
> > upstream tarballs silently mangles them in ways unintended.
>
> Does this not cause readily-detected lossage, like failed builds ?
>
> > But I now learned that the bug has seemingly been reported several
> > times already, on several packages, and each of them lowered.
>
> What does uscan use to do the repacking ? I doubt the bug can be in
> gbp.
The only thing gbp could do about it is to not use tar to unpack the
tarballs but rather use something that copes with what uscan did
correctly.
That said thing #831870 should have a higher priority (I think) and this
should be the thing fixed. I'd rather invest time there rather than
workign around it in gbp.
Cheers,
-- Guido
