Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.9.10 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
in https://salsa.debian.org/anbe/git-buildpackage you can find two branches: features and fixes In 'features' I've implemented two things: * %(version)s substitution for tarball-dir * preexport hooks that run before the tarballs get selected from the tarball-dir (the hook can so some magic to bring the tarballs into existence) These are at least proof-of-concept implementations, they may lack proper documentation etc. In 'fixes' are some issues fixed that I noticed while doing and testing the above ... Luca and I have tested this a bit on the nvidia-graphics-drivers repository (which has large blobs in the tarballs and one component tarball per arch, for 3 supported architectures), and it seems to fit our wishes. (We plan to have a git-lfs backed repository to archive all the tarballs, with one subdirectory per upstream version. Since this will get insanely large over time, we plan to have a sparsely checked out repository where only the upstream versions ever needed locally will be available locally. This needs the preexport hook to run a script (or just a special target in debian/rules) to fetch missing tarballs for the current version.) There is another branch 'anbe' that primarily contains the feature "use hardlinks instead of symlinks", which maybe should get a configuration option ... and a wishlist buf of its own. (Since I tend to move around stuff, absolute symlinks frequently break ... and I usually keep my uploads for quite some time ... in an archive location.) Andreas
