On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 at 08:41:40 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> over all the years I had assumed the -x and -b operations of dpkg-source
> are inverse, and the other way around as well. In other words, I
> expected to rely on the following:
>
> Running "dpkg-source -x" on a .dsc, and then "dpkg-source -b" on
> the unpacked tree re-creates the initial .dsc file.
That would be impossible to guarantee, because it's affected by the
options you pass to dpkg-source -b (most likely via dpkg-buildpackage
or debuild, for example DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS in ~/.devscripts).
> Now I came across a (native) package that fails that rule - after
> running "dpkg-source -b", the top-level .gitignore file was missing.
Are you using `debuild -i` or similar? That ignores .gitignore,
.gitattributes and so on, not just .git/, which is not always desired.
smcv
