Re: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Debian's policy §4.9 discusses a ‘debian/rules’ target named
> ‘get-orig-source’:
> 
>      `get-orig-source' (optional)
>           This target fetches the most recent version of the original
>           source package from a canonical archive site (via FTP or
>           WWW, for example), does any necessary rearrangement to turn
>           it into the original source tar file format described below,
>           and leaves it in the current directory.
> 
> I have had some success with the following approach:
> […]

>   * Invoke the appropriate VCS tool to export the specified revision
>     from the VCS repository URL to a temporary directory.
> […]

It's been brought to my attention that this approach actually
conflicts with the above section of policy.

Am I right in thinking that the ‘get-orig-source’ target should ignore
the version strings in ‘debian/changelog’, and should instead get
whatever version is the latest available from upstream?

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Ben Finney