Idea: sbuild/pbuilder "--dgit" option

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 09:29:17PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Idea: sbuild/pbuilder "--dgit" option"):
> > The effect it has (and what I understand the thing you want), is that it
> > will make a build *fail* if there is a .git-ignore file that has a
> > different content than the .orig.tar.* (or is not included in the form
> > of a debian/patches/ file). Because when it is no longer an ignored
> > derivation between unpacked source and current clean working directory,
> > it is by definition an fatal error. (Unless one was to reintroduce the
> > annoying, error-hiding, error-introducing 'generate new patches at build'
> > time behaviour).
> 
> This is a problem in some situations, indeed.  The problem case is
> when: the source format is `3.0 (quilt)'; without
> `single-debian-patch'; and the build is being done by a maintainer;
> and the maintainer wants to build from their master branch.
> 
> But I think the proposed --dgit option to a build tool can still be
> useful in some situations.  For example, with other source formats, or
> with single-debian-patch (where I think the patch is autoregenerated
> as needed); or if the build is being done by a non-maintainer user
> from the dgit history view; or the maintainer is willing to invoke
> dgit to obtain the dgit history view and build from that.

Quick note that I believe you have to add auto-commit in addition to
single-debian-patch to get this automatic behaviour.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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