Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.8.6 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, if pristine-tar is not installed
$ gbp import-orig --uscan gbp:info: Launching uscan... uscan: Newest version of album on remote site is 4.15, local version is 4.13 uscan: => Newer package available from http://marginalhacks.com/bin/album.versions/album-4.15.tar.gz gbp:info: using ../album_4.15.orig.tar.gz What is the upstream version? [4.15] gbp:info: Importing '../album_4.15.orig.tar.gz' to branch 'upstream'... gbp:info: Source package is album gbp:info: Upstream version is 4.15 gbp:error: Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream '09801509e1efd7f763a1f7feea16fbe8f4e32898': gbp:error: Import of ../album_4.15.orig.tar.gz failed: Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream '09801509e1efd7f763a1f7feea16fbe8f4e32898': gbp:error: Error detected, Will roll back changes. gbp:info: Rolling back branch upstream by resetting it to a763da85d428ff50023a32fab92f255f682d013a gbp:info: Rolling back branch pristine-tar by resetting it to 8e77790495b7dc5b00851314e7e2acdf7617c1b2 gbp:error: Rolled back changes after import error. It could be better to provide an actual error. Best -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.2a (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.16.8 ii git 1:2.10.1-1 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii python-dateutil 2.5.3-2 ii python-pkg-resources 28.0.0-1 ii python-six 1.10.0-3 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: pn cowbuilder | pbuilder | sbuild <none> ii pristine-tar 1.37 pn python-requests <none> Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: pn python-notify <none> ii sudo 1.8.17p1-2 ii unzip 6.0-20 -- no debconf information