Git help needed (Was: MIA - Software for medical image alaysis)
(forgot to change the subject to attract Git-Experts interest ...)
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:39:39AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there seems to be some problem with creating the source tarball from libvistaio.
> Any hint?
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:19:37AM +0100, Gert Wollny wrote:
> > Hello Andreas,
> >
> >
> > > Cool. Unfortunately it does not (yet) build for me:
> > >
> > > ~/tmp $ debcheckout --user tille git://git.debian.org/debian-med/libvistaio.git --git-track '*'
> > > declared git repository at git+ssh://tille@git.debian.org/git/debian-med/libvistaio.git
> > > git clone git+ssh://tille@git.debian.org/git/debian-med/libvistaio.git libvistaio ...
> > > Cloning into 'libvistaio'...
> > > remote: Counting objects: 192, done.
> > > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (145/145), done.
> > > remote: Total 192 (delta 58), reused 143 (delta 35)
> > > Receiving objects: 100% (192/192), 184.98 KiB | 191 KiB/s, done.
> > > Resolving deltas: 100% (58/58), done.
> > > Branch pristine-tar set up to track remote branch pristine-tar from origin.
> > > Branch upstream set up to track remote branch upstream from origin.
> > > Use of uninitialized value $srcpkg in substitution (s///) at /usr/bin/debcheckout line 822.
> > >
> > > ~/tmp $ cd libvistaio
> > > ~/tmp/libvistaio(master) $ git-buildpackage
> > > dh clean
> > > dh_testdir
> > > dh_auto_clean
> > > dh_clean
> > > gbp:info: Orig tarball 'libvistaio_1.2.14.orig.tar.xz' not found at '../tarballs/'
> > > fatal: Path 'libvistaio_1.2.14.orig.tar.xz.delta' does not exist in 'refs/heads/pristine-tar'
> > > pristine-tar: git show refs/heads/pristine-tar:libvistaio_1.2.14.orig.tar.xz.delta failed
> > > gbp:error: Couldn't checkout "libvistaio_1.2.14.orig.tar.xz": /usr/bin/pristine-tar returned 128
> >
> > I think if you don't have the tarball, you need to run
> >
> > git-buildpackage --git-pristine-tar
> >
> > at least I did it once, when it complained about the missing tarball.
>
> As far as I know (and see from the prefectly identical output)
> git-buildpackage is doing this automatically in case it can not find the
> source tarball at the expected location - at least when adding this
> option the output remains identically.
>
> > There is another problem though, I forgot to tag the last upload. You
> > can work around this by doing
> >
> > git tag -d upstream/1.2.14-1
> > git tag upstream/1.2.14-1
> >
> > this will delete the tag that I set earlier (*) and then set the tag to
> > the current git head.
> >
> > *) Actually, the tagged version should also work, just not with
> > multiarch. Which reminds me that this requires to set a minimum cmake
> > version in the dependencies. I'll fix this and the tag first thing in
> > the morning tomorrow.
>
> I do not think that there is a need to tag
>
> upstream/<upstream-version>-<debian-version>
>
> If you are properly using pristine-tar as written in our team policy[1]
>
> git import-orig --pristine-tar /path/to/package_version.orig.tar.gz
>
> the tagging of upstream versions is done automatically (and is lacking
> the '-<debian-version>' part). Once you are done with the Debian
> packaging the tag is rather
>
> debian/<upstream-version>-<debian-version>
>
> However, there is no point in doing this tagging before we upload the
> read package to the Debian mirror (in case of an initial package upload
> I do even delay the tagging until the package was acceted by ftpmaster.)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
>
> [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#git-tips
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