Jeremy Bicha writes ("Bug#862429: dgit: Doesn't work on Ubuntu"):
> Package: dgit
> Version: 3.10
>
> It doesn't look like dgit really works on Ubuntu. This seems a major
> weakness if Ubuntu users are unable to easily work with packages
> maintained with dgit.
>
> $ sudo apt install dgit
> $ dgit clone pcre
> canonical suite name for unstable is sid
> starting new git history
> no version available from the archive
> dgit: package pcre does not exist in suite unstable
This seems accurate. I guess that's not your complaint ?
If that is your complaint then what makes you think there is a source
package called `pcre' ? Alternatively, try
dgit clone dpkg
> $ dgit clone pcre artful
> dgit: unknown suite artful
> $ dgit clone pcre zesty
> dgit: unknown suite zesty
Try
dgit -d ubuntu clone dpkg artful
There's a table of suites in dgit and really dgit should be updated to
have the latest ubuntu suites.
> I've never used dgit before so I don't really understand what's going
> wrong here. Do you have to be actually using Debian unstable (and not
> testing) to use dgit to work with an unstable package?
No.
> Could it just use snapshot.debian.org? or fetch what it needs from the
> Debian package archives itself?
It is supposed to fetch what it needs from the relevant archive, which
means the Debian servers for Debian and the Ubuntu servers for Ubuntu.
dgit push to Ubuntu is not supported; that needs server-side support.
Ian.
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