[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 <onlyjob at debian.org> 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...
>
> --
> Regards,
>  Dmitry Smirnov.
>
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Best regards,
Michael