Re: Most optimal way to import NMU into existing git-builpackage repository?

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Fri 25 Oct 2024 at 08:07pm +01, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> Thanks for all the comments!
>
> Trying to summarize and expand on the points raised:
>
> Seems this is still the most optimal way to ensure git is correct:
>
>    gbp import-dsc --verbose --pristine-tar apt:j4-dmenu-desktop/sid
>
> Also, dgit pull can be used to get the latest source automatically, but unfortunately those
> git commits are made as a custom "Debian as a git repo" representation, and is not
> compatible with using CI testing and code review before upload in the way many of us
> are doing on Salsa currently.

'dgit pull' integrates the NMU automatically, when it can.  It doesn't
just fetch the source.  I don't follow how it's different from 'gbp
import-dsc'.  Could you say more?

-- 
Sean Whitton