[pkg-go] gbp: how to import upstream tarball without tag?

[Dmitry Smirnov]

Hi, Alexandre

Could you please advise how can I import upstream tarball from remote repo if 
upstream do not tag their releases? Recently you did it somehow for "golang-
gogoprotobuf" so I hope you could share the secret knowledge with me. :)

Thank you.

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Re: [pkg-go] gbp: how to import upstream tarball without tag?

[Michael Stapelberg]

I just use dh-make-golang to produce new upstream tarballs. See also
https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/issues/14

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Dmitry Smirnov  wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 September 2015 12:52:56 Martín Ferrari wrote:
>> There is a very well documented and tidy process for doing all this,
>> although it is probably way too complicated for most people. Still, it
>> is a good read to have an idea of how to do things:
>> http://blog.mycre.ws/articles/git-packaging-workflow-for-py-lmdb/
>
> Thank you for detailed replay and for all your hints. Indeed I find it too
> complicated. :( I merely cloned one of our packages' repository and managed
> to produce a release tarball from HEAD of upstream repository by using "dh-
> make-golang" which is a bit awkward yet a lot simpler than to configure git
> remote and fetch history of all upstream changes since beginning of time
> merely to generate tarball for "gbp import-orig"...
>
>
>> Another read: DEP-14, which documents some best-practices for debian/git
>> packaging: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep14/
>
> IMHO this is too GBP-oriented approach. My favourite layout of debian package
> repositories is documented here:
>
> https://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/gitguidelines.html
>
> Unfortunately it does not answer the question how to easily produce orig.tar
> from tagless GitHub repositories...
>
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Re: [pkg-go] gbp: how to import upstream tarball without tag?

[Dmitry Smirnov]

Thank you for reply, Martín.

On Wednesday 02 September 2015 11:22:46 Martín Ferrari wrote:
> On 02/09/15 10:54, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> > Could you please advise how can I import upstream tarball from remote
> > repo if upstream do not tag their releases? Recently you did it somehow
> > for "golang- gogoprotobuf" so I hope you could share the secret
> > knowledge with me. :)
> If upstream does not tag their releases, you will need to find the
> commit manually and tag it (if you want to keep git history in sync).

Sorry, I'm not quite sure how exactly can I do that... You mean I should 
configure a remote (git remote add github https://github.com/repo/repo) then

git fetch github
git rebase github/master

then what? Merge to "upstream" branch and tag there manually?


> Otherwise you can just use gbp import-orig and ignore upstream's git
> history, but I prefer the other approach when possible.

I couldn't care less about upstream history and actually for the sake of 
importing mock-up tarball I want to entirely ignore upstream history.

But how can I do "gbp import-orig" without tarball?

Sorry, I'm still very confused...

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Re: [pkg-go] gbp: how to import upstream tarball without tag?

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Wednesday 02 September 2015 04:56:30 Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> I just use dh-make-golang to produce new upstream tarballs. See also
> https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/issues/14

That's how I generated upstream tarball in the end. :)

But it would be much nicer to be able to do that using `uscan`.

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