[Debian-salsa-ci] Repacking source package files in Salsa-CI

[James Addison]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 at 13:34, James Addison <jay at jp-hosting.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Otto,
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 at 19:42, Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org> wrote:
> > [ ... snip ... ]
> > The end result should be so that when uscan runs alone, it will fetch
> > the upstream sources and repacks it automatically. When you run `gbp
> > import-orig --uscan` it will likewise get the exact same thing, and
> > git-buildpackage will additionally deposit it in git in the correct
> > way.
>
> Thank you for the guidance - I've refactored the packaging repository
> to use the gbp workflow.  It took a little while to understand, but
> that does more-or-less make sense to me now - the the ability to
> import the sources and for Files-Excluded to be applied consistently
> both locally and during Salsa CI is nice.

I should really re-read my messages at least twice before sending
them: this paragraph was misleading.  I do understand that the uscan
import and Files-Excluded isn't applied during Salsa CI -- instead
Salsa CI is building from the tagged sources that are already
committed to git by the gbp workflow.

Anyway: thanks again.
James