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Hi Felipe,
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 07:19:04PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Guido Günther <a...@sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:36:09AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> >> Package: git-buildpackage
> >> Version: 0.6.0~git20121124
> >> Severity: normal
> >>
> >> When building a full (source+binary) package, dpkg-source is invoked  by
> >> dpkg-buildpackage. dpkg-source needs the orig tarball in order to create
> >> the source package. git-buildpackage should extract the tarball from the
> >> pristine-tar branch (if it exists) before invoking dpkg-source (if the
> >> tarball does not already exist), otherwise the build fails because the
> >> orig tarball was not found.
> >
> > Please attach the command you're using. gbp should behave exactly as you
> > describe.
> 
> Further experimentation reveals that the problem is not the invocation
> of gbp, but my package. However, gbp could be smarter about this.
> 
> The package I was trying to build had a wrong version number. It was a
> 3.0 (quilt) package, but the version didn't have a debian revision
> number.
> 
> I'm thinking gbp assumed it was a native package, so it didn't extract
> the pristine-tar data. Thus the behavior I was seeing.
> 
> I'm not sure what gbp should do in this case. But I think if the
> package format is 3.0 it can avoid guessing from the version if it
> should extract upstream data or not.

gbps idee about this for 3.0 is currently wrong. It fails to check
debian/source. It's on the todo list to have this fixed. Sorry for the
trouble.
Cheers,
 -- Guido


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