On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 03:49:13PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi, > On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 06:50:36AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > Source: git-buildpackage > > Version: 0.9.10 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > The Debian GNOME team uses gbp import-orig with the upstream-vcs-tag > > feature to include full upstream commit history. Some GNOME modules > > still use old CVS-style tagging conventions. [1] While I've asked the > > maintainers to switch to a more modern format, some maintainers don't > > want to change. > > > > For those that use a modern format, we can add something like this to > > debian/gbp.conf to make things easier on the Debian packager: > > upstream-vcs-tag = %(version)s > > Something similar to cb03293bd7e95e3e6a56947dff79c2afad8e3701 would be > needed then.
I just remembered that it's there already: ``` Some upstreams use other formats though and don't separate numbers by dots but rather by underscore(_), hyphen(-) or anything else. In order to cope with that you can use version mangling of these characters via substitution. The substitution works as follows: [DEFAULT] upstream-tag = v%(version%.%_)s This means that each occurrence of . will be replaced by _ in the upstream version number. For example the upstream version 1.2.3 as determined from the debian/changelog will be looked up as Git™ tag v1_2_3 by gbp buildpackage. ``` see http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.upstream-git.html for details. -- Guido
