Control: retitle -1 want better msg for missing .orig (eg due to accidental
upstream version bump)
Ralf Jung writes ("Bug#865905: dgit build fails with: dpkg-source: error:
missing orig.tar or debian.tar file in v2.0 source package"):
> On 25.06.2017 14:11, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Have you read dgit-user(7) ? That advises using gbp dch to generate a
> > new changelog entry.
>
> Yeah, I saw that. But then I still expect rebase trouble whenever the
> upstream package also touches the changelog. Also these entries will
> accumulate.
>
> Also this doesn't give me control over how the version is called, which
> is a problem because I have some scripts that rely on identifying my
> locally patched packages based on their version number.
Yes.
> > Peter Green (plugwash, of Raspbian) has some kind of gitish
> > autoforwardporter for patches. I keep meaning to investigate it...
>
> Thanks for the pointer, I'll see if I can get anything out of it!
It was mentioned on the vcs-pkg and dpkg-devel lists. Err, not sure
of the list names but hopefully that will be enough to find it...
> >>> $ dgit -DD build
> > Can you put the failing git branch somewhere so that I can repro this ?
>
> I've put it into the master branch at
> <https://github.com/RalfJung/temp.git>. Please let me know when I can
> delete that repo again.
Got it, thanks. You can delete it.
I had one further thought for you: you are evidently using a build
mode that builds a source package. If you build only binary packages
then you can forget about dgit quilt-fixup, and do not need to use
dgit to do the build - dpkg-buildpackage is fine.
Regards,
Ian.
