[Pkg-opennebula-devel] opennebula-4.12.3

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> writes:

>>  $ gbp buildpackage -us -uc
>> 
>> but got :
>> 
>> gbp:error: upstream/4.12.3+dfsg is not a valid treeish
>> 
>> What's wrong ?
>
> I do not use GBP but I think it can't find corresponding tag in the 
> "upstream" branch. You just need to get orig-tar by using "uscan".
>
> I think GBP can pick up tarball from "tarball-dir" if you have something like
>
>     [git-buildpackage]
>     tarball-dir = ../
>
> in your "~/.gbp.conf" file.
>

OK. May I suggest to add a get-orig-source rule to debian/rules which
would help that (hint: https://wiki.debian.org/onlyjob/get-orig-source
;-)

> I do not want to commit upstream tarball into "upstream" branch because of 
> numerous non-DFSG files. It is very inconvenient (and lot of unnecessary 
> overhead) to repack tarball multiple times and import it every time with its 
> own revision. There are other concerns like accumulating history of upstream 
> releases that quickly becomes obsolete etc. Sorry, I'm not a fan of GBP 
> repository layout...
>

Well... that's a matter of standards set by the different collaborating
persons in the team, bit given the current status, your choices are set
as the default, I guess ;)

I'll try and manage to rebuild anyway.

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER 
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Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)