Package: dgit
Version: 10.1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: mver...@wikimedia.org, matt...@debian.org
Hi,
I want to build packages from a dgit tree in CI; I spent some time
arranging for e.g. git deborig to work so that I could do:
git-deborig
mk-build-deps
dgit -wg build
And you pointed out that, in fact, I'd be better just using
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
In particular, that avoids the need to produce a source package at
all, which in many cases is desirable (in a gitish workflow, they're
not useful). dgit-user(7) does include runes to produce a
source-package-for-sbuild (under "Using sbuild") alongside a note that
this source package should not otherwise be used (and a reference to
#868527).
In fact, while a DD always wants to use some flavour of dgit
build/sbuild/whatever (since a DD will be uploading a source or binary
package), for non-DD-users who don't care about source packages but
just want binaries-from-git, they don't want dgit build at all (since
that will make a source package), but rather dpkg-buildpackage[0].
dgit-user(7) should note this prominently. A bonus point might be to
refer to dcmd(1), since CI often has requirements about where build
artifacts go (in particular, gitlab won't take artifacts from
out-of-tree, so build artifacts will need moving from .., which dcmd
helps with). In bookworm-and-later dpkg-buildpackage has --changes-file.
[this bug report is a summary of an IRC discussion]
Thanks,
Matthew
[0] the result of which may well be a lot of rubbish inside the git
working tree, but that is already discussed in dgit-user(7)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
APT prefers oldstable-security
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dgit depends on:
ii apt 2.2.4
ii ca-certificates 20210119
ii coreutils 8.32-4+b1
ii curl 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7
ii devscripts 2.21.3+deb11u1
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.12
ii dput 1.1.0
ii git [git-core] 1:2.30.2-1+deb11u2
ii git-buildpackage 0.9.22
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.12
ii libjson-perl 4.03000-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-2
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-4+b1
ii libtext-csv-perl 2.00-1
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-1
ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-7+b1
ii libwww-curl-perl 4.17-7+b1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.32.1-4+deb11u2
Versions of packages dgit recommends:
ii distro-info-data 0.51+deb11u3
ii liburi-perl 5.08-1
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:8.4p1-5+deb11u1
Versions of packages dgit suggests:
ii cowbuilder 0.89
ii pbuilder 0.231
ii sbuild 0.81.2+deb11u1
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