On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On 16/07/24 11:36, Daniel Gröber wrote: > > since this came up in #d-mentors recently: is anyone working on nicer > > tooling in the vein of gbp-import-ref but with the ability to handle > > Files-Excluded like mk-origtargz? > > Because having DFSG-clean "debian" branches is (at the moment) a > nice-to-have feature, but creating DFSG-clean origtgz files is a must, > perhaps the first step should be to teach gbp-export-orig to respect > Files-Excluded, see <https://bugs.debian.org/1069324>.
Right, thanks for the link. That certainly is one angle of attack and I hope someone does tackle it given how popular gbp is, but it's not the only game in town. Personally I'm moving away from gbp toward the dgit patches-applied workflows so I'd be interested in something that can work there (too?). A quick chat with Ian on IRC illuminates the situation: git-deborig (dgit/t2u's equivalent of gbp-export-orig) can't directly do this as it would break dgit's "tarball equals git exactly" invariant. This needs do be done as a seperate tool that commits the removals into git. I think the same tool could also work for the gbp case unless I'm missing something. If nobody has a tool like that in the works yet I may have a stab at it. If anyone has any spare cycles I'd also like us think about how a full-blown git-filter-branch/-repo invocation would fit into the picture so perhaps the interface could handle those in the future. --Daniel
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
