severity 588752 normal thanks Hi,
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:17:29AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > Package: git-buildpackage > Version: 0.4.65ubuntu1 > Severity: important > > > As mentioned in the subject, without pristine-tar in use, or using > --git-no-pristine-tar, git-buildpackage fails with submodules in two areas: > > * Creating the orig tarball from tag or upstream-branch > * Exporting the contents of the debian-branch to a separate directory > (--git-export-dir) > > In both cases, the contents of the submodule is left out, meaning that the > contents of the submodule are missing from both the exported directory and > orig > tarball, leading to it being completely missing from the generated package. > > This is due to git-archive not handling submodules, as it only exports the > contents of a tree-ish, which does not include submodules by > design. git-buildpackage relies on git-archive both for exporting the > directory, as well as for generating the tarball. A possible solution would be > to workaround these two areas, by looping through each submodule and > exporting to the export-dir or catenating the contents into the generated > tarball. Thanks for your analysis! Yes, with submodules we need to loop over submodules. Seems other have stumbled of the not subarchive-awareness of git-archive too: http://github.com/meitar/git-archive-all.sh Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
