On Feb 15, Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> wrote: > I am maintainer for mg, currently on salsa. Problem is, upstream > doesn't release tar balls anymore, but moved the code to github. I plan to do something like this for ppp, which now has a proper upstream git repository but no actual releases in a long time: mkdir /dev/shm/ppp/ cd /dev/shm/ppp rsync -aH .../ppp-2.4.7/ ppp-2.4.7/ cd ppp-2.4.7/ git branch -m upstream tarupstream git checkout tarupstream git remote add upstream https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp.git git fetch upstream git checkout remotes/upstream/master git switch -c upstream git merge tarupstream --allow-unrelated-histories git branch -d tarupstream git tag ppp-2.4.7+20191019 git checkout master git merge ppp-2.4.7+20191019 dch --preserve --version 2.4.7+20191019-1+1 "New upstream snapshot." cat << END > debian/gbp.conf [DEFAULT] upstream-tag = ppp-%(version)s pristine-tar = False compression = xz [pq] patch-numbers = False END gbp export-orig -- ciao, Marco
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