On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:20:45PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Please, *never* do that. It's generally a very bad idea to write > anything to debian/gbp.conf. It's as if you were adding your text editor > preferences in the package. Instead, please prefer writing in ~/.gbp.conf.
I keep most of my git-buildpackage settings which are specific to my developer environment in ~/.gbp.conf. However, there are some gbp settings which are specific to the repository set up, and those I think, IMHO, *are* appropriate for debian/gbp.conf. For example: [DEFAULT] pristine-tar = True upstream-tag='v%(version)s' debian-branch=debian/master If you are going to be cloning the e2fsprogs repository and wanting to use gbp-buildpackage, you *will* want to use these settings, and putting them in ~/.gbp.conf doesn't work well, since they won't apply for all packages that they might want to build. Regards, - Ted