Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#908417: dgit does not handle debian/.gitignore
missing from source package"):
> I will file a bug against dpkg requesting a command line option which
> resets the tar-ignore list.
I've just filed
#908742 Want way to reset tar-ignore list
> Even if and when that is all done, you will still have the problem
> that source packages built in whatever way generated the errors above
> will still be wrong: they will wrongly lack debian/.gitignore.
It occurs to me that I think you can give a value for the tar-ignore
option. So maybe you can say tar-ignore=.git ?
Probably, then, you want to put into debian/source/options the output
from
dgit print-dpkg-source-ignores
which is currently
-i(?:^|/)\.git(?:/|$) -I.git
It might change if we find bugs in it. That has happened once
already. But if your package doesn't contain files for which that
rune is buggy, I think you should be OK.
HTH.
I hvae also filed
Bug#908747 Default -I and -i option should not exclude .<vcs>ignore
about the root cause of all of this. I expect that to be
controversial and slow to fix.
Regards,
Ian.
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