On 06/05/2014 03:36 AM, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:16:59 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > >>> One more thing. I think it would also be great if the script >>> downloaded the upstream source with get-orig-source, extracted and >>> committed it as well. >> Yes that's a good idea. Either call get-orig-source or download the >> latest upstream tarball from the Debian FTP. > > IIRC, for pkg-perl we've done something like download all versions of > a source package from snapshot.d.o (with debsnap) and added the > .orig.tar.gz's with pristine-tar. Or something similar :) "git-import-dscs --debsnap $package" will do it all in one step, except that it won't always get all of the commit author information correct. I wonder if it could be extended just a bit with the work Emmanuel has done to preserve committer info. Cheers, tony
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