Hello, On Mon 21 Aug 2023 at 02:08pm +01, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> On 10/08/2023 13:13, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Hello, >> On Wed 09 Aug 2023 at 10:29am +01, Matthew Vernon wrote: >> >>> And you pointed out that, in fact, I'd be better just using >>> dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b >>> >>> In particular, that avoids the need to produce a source package at >>> all, which in many cases is desirable (in a gitish workflow, they're >>> not useful). dgit-user(7) does include runes to produce a >>> source-package-for-sbuild (under "Using sbuild") alongside a note that >>> this source package should not otherwise be used (and a reference to >>> #868527). >> What I like to tell people is that dgit is pretty much only for when >> what you want to do will involve .dscs. No .dscs, no need for dgit. > > I think you mean "dgit build" here? clone/pull/etc are all still very useful > :) No, I mean in those cases too -- those are cases where you have to deal with source packages, because those are what the archive mirrors have. -- Sean Whitton
