Bug#850478: git-pbuilder deliberately deletes source.changes
Guido Günther
agx at sigxcpu.org
Sat Jan 7 17:42:12 UTC 2017
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 09:30:57AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 06:18:14PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> Yeah, it does that because I didn't know how to do better (and this
> >> started life as my personal script for my workflow, and at the time all
> >> *_source.changes files were garbage).
>
> > umh, $pkg_$version_source.changes? :)
>
> Okay, how do I get $pkg and $version? :) git-pbuilder right now doesn't
> know any of that stuff. I suppose I could try to parse debian/changelog
> using dpkg-parsechangelog or something....
gbp buildpackage could pass this in env vars too. In fact I already
looked how this could be done and wonder if we should do at least that
for stretch? If so I can fix this up in gbp and git-pbuilder until
pbuilder is fixed.
Slightly related: What would be nice if gbp would know which changes
file got created by git-pbuilder / pdebuild so it doesn't have to guess
which one to use for an upload:
https://github.com/agx/git-buildpackage/blob/master/examples/gbp-posttag-push#L147
> But if pdebuild stops generating the bad *_source.changes file, then I can
> just delete all that code and everything becomes easier.
>
> >> > Now, I'm of the view that dpkg-source -b should be used instead,
> >> > which is what sbuild uses to create the dsc. This also has the
> >> > advantage of not generating .buildinfo files (no annoying
> >> > debian/files lingering after the build, either). Then the only
> >> > _source.changes generated by pbuilder would be if the user requested
> >> > it, and therefore having it deleted by git-pbuilder would be wrong.
> >>
> >> Yeah, this seems reasonable to me. Definitely happy to change
> >> git-pbuilder once pdebuild is fixed to not produce the spurious and
> >> useless *_changes.file.
>
> > Indeed, is this a suggestion for pdebuild?
>
> Yeah, I think you might not have gotten the original message, since I
> think the X-Debugs-Cc may have been in the wrong spot?
Cheers,
-- Guidox
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