Shengjing Zhu writes ("Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer 
views"):
> Here's the example for my package, which only has debian dir in
> debian-branch.
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/zhsj-guest/anbox
> 
> To build, using
> 
> gbp clone https://salsa.debian.org/zhsj-guest/anbox
> gbp buildpackage --git-export-dir=../build-area --git-builder=sbuild
> 
> I'm not sure if I have magic gbp.conf elsewhere, so let me you if you
> can't build.

Thank you for this and your followup messages.  I have now looked at
this.  I think it would be very useful to enable dgit push for your
workflow and this is now much higher up on my todo list.

Thank you so much for providing a concrete helpful and clear test/use
case for me.  That is invaluable.


For my reference.

I observe that in your git repository there is a tag
   upstream/0.0_git20190124
and that this tag
   (i) appears to contain the upstream git history
   (ii) is absolutely identical to your orig tarball
        anbox_0.0~git20190124.orig.tar.gz
I think you must have generated the latter with git-deborig or
something.  This is good.


I intend to support this with
    --quilt=packaging-git

Sean, there is of course the other possibility, where upstream is only
a tarball.  I propose to intend to support this, eventually, with
    --quilt=packaging-plus-tar

dgit will look for the corresponding upstream source tag with an
algorithm like git-deborig's.  In case that doesn't work there will
have to be an option to specify it explicitly.


Anyone have any comments on these UI decisions ?

Ian.


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