On 25 July 2011 16:12, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > Le Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:56:01PM -0700, Shaun Jackman a écrit : >> Hi Charles, >> >> I've just uploaded IGV 2.0.6-1. >> >> What do I do with the pristine-tar and meta branches? These branches >> are new to me. > > Hi Shaun, > > thanks a lot for bringing us IGV 2.0 ! > > the pristine-tar is a convenience branch that stores information necessary to > re-create a bit-by-bit identical upstream archive (‘.orig.tar.gz’), so that it > avoids problems of hashsum mismatches when uploading Debian revisions (perhaps > you have seen these rejection emails on our maintainer mailing list). For > some > reasons, just doing ‘tar xfvz’ from the upstream branch (ignoring .git, of > course) will not produce exactly the same file on different systems. The main > helper tool we use to register an ‘upstream’ tarball (in the case of IGV, that > is what the get-orig-source script produces) is ‘git-import-orig’ from the > git-buildpackage toolkit.
Hi Charles, I used git-import-orig from git-buildpackage 0.5.26, but it didn't update the pristine-tar branch by default. I'll read the man page tomorrow and see if I can get it working. Cheers, Shaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADX6M3qSPyK-rC1kU9vcNcYMy=x4me_81rg_mfnqgwjtgjm...@mail.gmail.com