Package: dgit Version: 14.8 Severity: wishlist Hi,
this is from the big tag2upload thread in #debian-devel. I'll just quote an exchange between myself an rra here: On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 08:41:26AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >Marc Haber <[email protected]> writes: >> Two minor things. My ~/.gbp.conf contains > >> [buildpackage] [...] >> tarball-dir=../tarballs > >> since I am not too fond of my parent directory being cluttered with build >> artifacts. for dgit rpush, I had to move the origtargz to my git's parent >> directory, and the build artifacts were palced there. Is that configurable >> in dgit? > [...] >I don't think there is an equivalent of tarball-dir, sadly. I also find >this annoying. I have just been living with the orig.tar.gz in the parent >directory causing some clutter (but not nearly as much as the build >products). > >I would love it if there was an option that told origtargz to put it >somehwere else and told dgit to find it somewhere else. Maybe there is and >I just don't know about it? Since noone chipped in in a week, the feature seems to be indeed missing. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.18.9+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dgit depends on: ii apt 3.1.16 ii ca-certificates 20250419 ii coreutils 9.7-3 ii curl 8.18.0-2 ii devscripts 2.26.5 ii dpkg-dev 1.23.5 ii dput 1.2.4 ii git [git-core] 1:2.51.0-1 ii git-buildpackage 0.9.39 ii libdpkg-perl 1.23.5 ii libjson-perl 4.10000-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-2 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-8 ii libtext-csv-perl 2.06-1 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-3 ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-8.1 ii libwww-curl-perl 4.17-13 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.40.1-7 ii python3 3.13.9-3 Versions of packages dgit recommends: ii distro-info-data 0.68 ii liburi-perl 5.34-2 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:10.2p1-3 Versions of packages dgit suggests: ii sbuild 0.91.5 -- no debconf information

