Hi, I tried to package a Java library which is needed for Beast-mcmc and which made be available by mail from author only (I asked for an upload but this did not happened (yet)). Becase the license seems to be OK (Apache 2.0) I see no real problem in this but IMHO this is a use case for git to make sure people will have reasonable access to the source. So I tried:
$ mkdir liboptions-java $ cd liboptions-java $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tillea/debian-maintain/alioth/debian-med_git/liboptions-java/.git/ $ git import-orig --pristine-tar ../tarballs/liboptions-java_0.0.20120113.orig.tar.gz What will be the source package name? [liboptions-java] What is the upstream version? [0.0.20120113] gbp:info: Importing '../tarballs/liboptions-java_0.0.20120113.orig.tar.gz' to branch 'master'... gbp:info: Source package is liboptions-java gbp:info: Upstream version is 0.0.20120113 pristine-tar: committed liboptions-java_0.0.20120113.orig.tar.gz.delta to branch pristine-tar gbp:info: Successfully imported version 0.0.20120113 of ../tarballs/liboptions-java_0.0.20120113.orig.tar.gz Now I tested: $ git tag upstream/0.0.20120113 $ git branch * master pristine-tar upstream Seems to look OK for me. Now I tried whether I could get the tarball out of the archive again: $ pristine-tar checkout tarball fatal: Path 'tarball.delta' does not exist in 'refs/heads/pristine-tar' pristine-tar: git show refs/heads/pristine-tar:tarball.delta failed Bummer! So what exactly did I wrong? It's a bit unfortunate that vasks is down currently. If you want to try the specific tarball I uploaded everything to http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/options/ As I said we need a brain dead stupid working mechanism to create such a Git repository. The procedure written down in our policy seems to not qualify for this description. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
