[request-tracker-maintainers] Building RT from our git repo?

[Andrew Ruthven]

I worked out what was wrong. I have git configured with
diff.noprefix=true which prevents showing "a/" and "b/" in git diffs.
Turns out dpkg-source and friends don't like that, they expect there to
be a directory (possibly even a and b).

I removed that setting and now I can build the packages.

Cheers,
Andrew

On Sat, 2020-07-04 at 12:12 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> I don't think I've ever run git-dpm prepare before... if you run
> the commands in the README.source, I think dpkg-buildpackage should
> work fine afterwards - that's the expectation - the master branch
> should always be buildable using the vanilla tools.
> 
> (my workflow is generally dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -S && cd .. &&
> sbuild ... but that shouldn't make a difference if you're building
> on the right Debian release, but for final testing sbuild or
> equivalent
> is obviously recommended)
> 
> Cheers
> Dominic
> 
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 08:49:46PM +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Okay, this may be a dumb question, but how do I build the package
> > from
> > the git repo? When I run the following (from the git-dpm man page):
> > 
> >   git-dpm prepare && dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
> > 
> > I get:
> > 
> > dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package request-tracker5
> > dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 5.0.0beta2-1
> > dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution UNRELEASED
> > dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Andrew Ruthven <
> > andrew at etc.gen.nz>
> > dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
> >  dpkg-source --before-build .
> > dpkg-source: error: none of the filenames in ---/+++ are valid in
> > diff
> > 'request-tracker5/debian/patches/layout.diff' (line 16)
> > dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build . subprocess
> > returned exit status 255
> > puck at dirk:~/work/RT/request-tracker5$ 
> > 
> > I imported the orig tarballs using the commands given in
> > debian/README.source .
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> > -- 
> > Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand
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