Package: pristine-tar
Version: 1.47
Severity: normal
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I ran into this issue while trying to import the latest upstream
version for libvirt:
$ gbp import-orig --verbose --no-rollback --debian-branch debian/experimental
../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-bare-repository']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--git-dir']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'for-each-ref', '--format=%(refname:short)', 'refs/heads/']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/upstream/latest']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'status', '--porcelain']
gbp:debug: Signature ../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz found for
../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz.asc
What is the upstream version? [6.4.0]
gbp:debug: ['git', 'tag', '-l', 'upstream/6.4.0']
gbp:debug: tar ['-C', '../tmp8pliau55', '-a', '-xf',
'../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz'] []
gbp:debug: Unpacked '../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz' to
'../tmp8pliau55/libvirt-6.4.0'
gbp:info: Importing '../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz' to branch
'upstream/latest'...
gbp:info: Source package is libvirt
gbp:info: Upstream version is 6.4.0
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/upstream/latest']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify', 'upstream/latest']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'add', '-f', '.']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'write-tree']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify', 'upstream/latest']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'commit-tree', '5d1f17e4035e01548d006d598922650408f56703',
'-p', '1b6982f1b5d95a81eef1a112d0b1b228d7f910b2']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'update-ref', '-m', 'gbp: New upstream version 6.4.0',
'refs/heads/upstream/latest', '46f45a63850c420af231a5c4186c5f9187c6b9b4',
'1b6982f1b5d95a81eef1a112d0b1b228d7f910b2']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/pristine-tar']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify', 'pristine-tar']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'ls-tree', '-z', 'upstream/latest', '--']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'mktree', '-z']
gbp:debug: pristine-tar [] ['--help']
gbp:debug: pristine-tar [] ['commit', '../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz',
'5d1f17e4035e01548d006d598922650408f56703', '-s',
'../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz.asc']
gbp:error: Import of ../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz failed: Couldn't commit to
'pristine-tar' with upstream '5d1f17e4035e01548d006d598922650408f56703':
pristine-xz failed to reproduce build of ../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz
(Please file a bug report.)
pristine-tar: failed to generate delta
gbp:debug: rm ['-rf', '../tmp8pliau55'] []
Running pristine-tar again manually, to gather more information:
$ pristine-tar --verbose --debug commit ../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz
5d1f17e4035e01548d006d598922650408f56703 -s ../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz.asc
pristine-tar: git archive --format=tar
5d1f17e4035e01548d006d598922650408f56703 | (cd '/tmp/pristine-tar.zknL0MQpcM'
&& tar x)
pristine-tar: set subdir to libvirt-6.4.0
pristine-tar: subdir is libvirt-6.4.0
pristine-tar: mkdir /tmp/pristine-tar.R46gh49xSl/workdir
pristine-tar: mv /tmp/pristine-tar.zknL0MQpcM
/tmp/pristine-tar.R46gh49xSl/workdir/libvirt-6.4.0
pristine-tar: tar cf /tmp/pristine-tar.R46gh49xSl/recreatetarball --owner 0
--group 0 --numeric-owner -C /tmp/pristine-tar.R46gh49xSl/workdir
--no-recursion --mode 0644 --verbatim-files-from --files-from
/tmp/pristine-tar.R46gh49xSl/manifest
pristine-tar: pristine-xz -v -d --no-keep gendelta
../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz /tmp/pristine-tar.bXsstH80WF/wrapper
pristine-xz: pixz -d < ../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz >
/tmp/pristine-tar.ULPnMKQoAx/test
pristine-xz failed to reproduce build of ../libvirt_6.4.0.orig.tar.xz
(Please file a bug report.)
pristine-tar: failed to generate delta
Downgrading pristine-tar to 1.46 from buster makes it possible to run
gbp import-orig successfully, at which point both 1.46 and 1.47 are
able to regenerate the tarball from the git branch.
The Debian repository for libvirt is
https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/
and the commits the various branches were pointing to when I
encountered the issue are
pristine-tar9964e57257 pristine-tar data for libvirt_6.2.0.orig.tar.xz
upstream/latest 1b6982f1b5 New upstream version 6.2.0
debian/experimental 51d88f1e6f Document changes and release 6.2.0-1
The tarball I was trying to import is
https://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-6.4.0.tar.xz
but I tried libvirt 6.3.0 as well and got the same results. A couple
of months ago, when I imported libvirt 6.2.0, and indeed all the many
times I used gbp import-orig before now, everything worked smoothly.
In fact, I might
