Dealing with abort-on-upstream-changes + .gitignore + git-pbuilder

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 22:10, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 07:54:24PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting build failures when using .gitignore +
>> debian/source/local-options with the abort-on-upstream-changes due to
>> .gitignore being in the root source dir. Strangely, this happens only when
>> git-pbuilder is being used. Anyone has dealt with this before?
>
> Are you sure you are using format 3.0?
>
> Previously I used this:
>
>  git-buildpackage --git-builder="localdebuild -i\.git/ -I.git
>
> With dpkg-source format 3.0 implicitly suppressin both .git and other
> niftyness, I switched to this:
>
>  git-buildpackage --git-builder="localdebuild
>
> ...but need to switch back whenever I need to build a package not in 3.0
> format.

As mentioned above, this fails only when git-pbuilder is in use. And
further searching suggests #606412 is the culprit.

>
>
> Also, is the change commited to git?  And is it added in the Debian overlay
> or an extension to a .gitignore already existing in upstream source?  What
> are the actual package + command used?

Package is csound, command is git-buildpackage --git-pbuilder


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler