Re: git-buildpackage: can it recreate the orig.tar.gz without the pristine-tar?

[Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 01:44:55PM +0100, Miguel Telleria de Esteban wrote:
> Why does git-buildpackage need pristine-tar to generate the orig.tar.gz
> file?.
It doesn't and it's even not enabled by default.

> Can't it just pick the contents from the upstream branch
> together with version number from debian/changelog and regenerate the
> orig.tar.gz from it?
That's the default workflow.

> RESULT:
> 
>    the orig.tar.gz does not get created in the build area 
What errors do you get?

> EXPECTED RESULT (that I can reproduce manually)
>    -  checkout temporarily the upstream branch
>    -  generate an .orig.tar.gz from it and move it to the build-area
>    -  checkout again the debian branch
>    -  proceed as normal
> 
>          and it works !!
> 
> so why does not git-buildpackage do this?
It does.

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