Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.7.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
If a user does not have pristine-tar installed, and uses gnp import-orig, they get an unhelpful error: gbp:error: Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream 'upstream-nightly': Execution failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory If pristine-tar is needed, it ought to be at least a Suggests: if not Recommends: -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers xenial-updates APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500, 'xenial'), (100, 'xenial-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.16.2ubuntu3 ii git 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii python-dateutil 2.4.2-1 ii python-pkg-resources 20.7.0-1 ii python-six 1.10.0-3 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii pbuilder 0.223 ii pristine-tar 1.33 ii python-requests 2.9.1-3 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: pn python-notify <none> ii sudo 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.1 ii unzip 6.0-20ubuntu1 -- no debconf information
