package: dgit version: 3.12 What I'm really trying to do is to have dgit build my package with sbuild, checking out the pristine-tar if necessary. Why do I like that better than dgit fetch to guarantee I have the tarball? Well, perhaps I trust my local state more than the archive (I understand I'll eventually get an error if they disagree) or perhaps I want to avoid the download for bandwidth reasons.
I tried dgit gbp-build --git-builder=sbuild but that fails because dgit passes -uc and -us to sbuild, which doesn't recognize them as options. Recommendation: if the user passes --git-builder as a gbp-build option, perhaps dgit shouldn't pass builder-specific options. Alternatively, you can say that I shouldn't pass git-builder, but if you're going to say that, I'd appreciate some mechanism to accomplish my pristine-tar goal. I guess I can also run gbp buildpackage without dgit, and that'll mostly work for me, but it seems not entirely desirable.