Re: how to use pbuilder without .dsc files?

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On 24/08/15 01:18, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Shawn Sörbom <shawn@sorbom.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using pbuilder for the first time and I was wondering:
> > How does one build a package in pbuilder if they haven't generated .dsc files?
> > I am trying to build a package on my stable system that has dependencies which
> > are only satisfiable in sid. I have not built this particular version yet, so
> > there are no .dsc or .changes files. what should I do?
>
> Use "pdebuild" from within your unpacked source directory.
> Alternatively, use "debuild -S" to generate a source package, then
> pass the .dsc file to pbuilder.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent

Alternatively, if the packaging your are working on uses git, you can 
use git-buildpackage [1].

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit

Then, building a new iteration of your package is as simple as running:

`gbp buildpackage`

inside your packaging repository.

Kind regards.
Ghis