Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

* Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> [241128 12:52]:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/28/24 10:56, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > pristine-tar almost always fail when there are multiple orig tar files.
> > I did not report bugs since the limitation of not working 100% is a
> > known issue already.
> 
> I'm surprised to hear this. src:cacti is using multiple orig tar files (2)
> for several years now and I've been using pristine-tar (via gbp) to store
> them.

But can you create the tarballs from that repo?

cacti $ git show pristine-tar
commit 1a42ec3d9772f93caa8b98cb78c5b0d2b0b320e9 (origin/pristine-tar, pristine-tar)
Author:     Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Oct 9 14:04:17 2024 +0200
Commit:     Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
CommitDate: Wed Oct 9 14:04:17 2024 +0200

    pristine-tar data for cacti_1.2.28+ds1.orig.tar.gz

diff --git a/cacti_1.2.28+ds1.orig.tar.gz.delta b/cacti_1.2.28+ds1.orig.tar.gz.delta
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..382fe265
Binary files /dev/null and b/cacti_1.2.28+ds1.orig.tar.gz.delta differ
diff --git a/cacti_1.2.28+ds1.orig.tar.gz.id b/cacti_1.2.28+ds1.orig.tar.gz.id
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1fa49d3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cacti_1.2.28+ds1.orig.tar.gz.id
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+979cace8c3b2467cdc418b849810b0ec2a54c7ae

cacti $ git show 979cace8c3b2467cdc418b849810b0ec2a54c7ae
fatal: bad object 979cace8c3b2467cdc418b849810b0ec2a54c7ae

...

I'll note that the tag upstream/1.2.28+ds1 points to 6aa33682cc62c3fbb638ff85dc02bf531406de93 .

C.