Hi Axel, thanks for your help. I got it working.
> That's because building a source package requires an upstream tar ball > (if a distinction between packaging and upstream is made) and > pristine-tar can (and tried to) give you that one. > > You can solve that in two ways: I like the first one. :-) > * Also create a local pristine-tar branch: "git checkout -b > pristine-tar origin/pristine-tar" and then try "gbp buildpackage" > again. $ git checkout pristine-tar $ git checkout debian/0.6.11-1 $ gpb build-package --git-ignore-branch --git-upstream-tree=upstream/0.6.11 worked for me. > * Or use the origtargz tool from the devscripts package. It knows many > ways to get the according upstream tar ball (including pristine-tar > which is usually its first try if that branch exists) and will try > them until it succeeds or runs out of methods. Usually the easiest > way to solve that problem as it doesn't require much thinking which > method is the right one in the current case and how are the > according commands. I have not tried this, since I was happy with the first solution. > Hope this helps. Indeed, it did. Thanks. Regards, Matthias _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
