Re: Upstream using git submodules

2015-12-03 Thread Diego M. Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:41:20PM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > You can have a look at the ArrayFire package that I personally maintain, > which also relies on submodules. Thanks a lot for the prompt answer and for the hints, Ghis, as well as for the pointer to the ArrayFire package: it's

Re: Upstream using git submodules

2015-12-03 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On 03/12/15 10:51, Diego M. Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:41:20PM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: You can have a look at the ArrayFire package that I personally maintain, which also relies on submodules. Thanks a lot for the prompt answer and for the hints, Ghis, as well as for

Re: Upstream using git submodules

2015-12-03 Thread Diego M. Rodriguez
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:10:55AM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > You were close, there is a --git-pristine-tar-commit option that does just > that ;-) > > So your final command should be: > > gbp buildpackage --git-upstream-tag=upstream/v0.5.1 > --git-debian-branch=debian/sid

Re: Upstream using git submodules

2015-12-03 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On 03/12/15 12:22, Diego M. Rodriguez wrote: The pristine tarball must include the content of the submodules for the builders to be able to build your source package. All the builders need to build a package is a source tarball, a debian tarball and a .dsc. Again, thanks for the clarification

Re: Upstream using git submodules

2015-12-03 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
Le 3 déc. 2015 18:40, "Diego M. Rodriguez" a écrit : > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:40:15PM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > > Speaking of potential mistakes, here are a few things that bited me whilst > > working on the packaging of ArrayFire: > > > > - Be sure that you

Re: Upstream using git submodules

2015-12-03 Thread Diego M. Rodriguez
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:40:15PM +, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Speaking of potential mistakes, here are a few things that bited me whilst > working on the packaging of ArrayFire: > > - Be sure that you don't need to repack / strip some of the content of the > source tree due to some

Re: Upstream using git submodules

2015-12-02 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On 02/12/15 13:14, Diego M. Rodriguez wrote: While the package does work without those components (setup.py falls back to using the Python implementation of the algorithms, and tests.py includes tests cases that do not depend on the .csv files), I'm wondering what should be done about the issue:

Upstream using git submodules

2015-12-02 Thread Diego M. Rodriguez
Dear Mentors, as part of my first formal attempt to package some software into Debian [1], I have stumbled upon an issue that I could not find the recommend way to solve, and I'd really welcome any input or guidance. The upstream package is hosted on GitHub [2], providing releases both there and