Re: Seeing "debian/changelog not found" error when importing new upstream tarball

[deb251@lewenberg.com]

On 12/17/2019 11:00 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 10:37:27AM -0800, deb251@lewenberg.com wrote:
> > 1. Download the stretch source packages:
> >
> > wget http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/heimdal/heimdal_7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u3.dsc
> > wget http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/heimdal/heimdal_7.1.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> > wget http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/heimdal/heimdal_7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u3.debian.tar.xz
> You should use dget instead.
>
> > 3. Download new source and change its name:
> >
> > wget https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/releases/download/heimdal-7.7.0/heimdal-7.7.0.tar.gz
> >
> > mv heimdal-7.7.0.tar.gz heimdal_7.7.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> Just adding +dfsg is not enough, you need to actually repack the source
> removing non-dfsg bits.
>
> > 5. Import the upstream source:
> >
> > git checkout upstream
> This is the reason of your error.
> You should do it in the debian branch.
> > gbp import-orig ../heimdal_7.7.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz -u7.7.0
> The heimdal_7.7.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz correspoinds to the 7.7.0+dfsg upstream
> version, not 7.7.0.

I changed the tar file name to heimdal_7.7.0.orig.tar.gz.

Switching to the master branch and running the same command I get a 
different error:

$ gbp import-orig ../heimdal_7.7.0.orig.tar.gz -u7.7.0
gbp:info: Importing '../heimdal_7.7.0.orig.tar.gz' to branch 'upstream'...
gbp:info: Source package is heimdal
gbp:info: Upstream version is 7.7.0
gbp:error: Import of ../heimdal_7.7.0.orig.tar.gz failed: Can't find 
upstream vcs tag at 'heimdal-7.7.0^{}'