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Bug#812721: gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch

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Hi,
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:02:50PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Package: git-buildpackage
> Version: 0.7.1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When uscan is used to generate an upstream tarball, it filters out files
> listed in the Files-Excluded: section of the debian/copyright file and
> appends +dfsg to the tarball's version.  This can then be imported to
> the packaging repository with gbp import-orig.
> 
> Nowadays, many upstreams do not ship tarballs.  When preparing the
> Debian packaging for such a project, it is convenient to simply clone
> upstream's git repository and add a branch to that for Debian
> packaging.
> 
> Suppose that upstream tags a release 1.2.3 in the git repository.  The
> Debian package maintainer must then manually delete the files listed in
> Files-Excluded: and then tag a new version 1.2.3+dfsg.  gbp can then
> create a tarball of this tag and commit it to the pristine-tar branch.

I would rather do this with a dfsg-clean branch. You delete once and
then use git tools from there on.

> It would be great if gbp could produce the 1.2.3+dfsg tag itself by
> reading debian/copyright and excluding the Files-Excluded: files.

If somebody comes up with a clean patch I'm happy to merge that.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

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Bug#812721: gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2016-01-26 05:10 +0100
  Bug#812721: gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> - 2016-01-26 07:50 +0100

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