[Pkg-octave-devel] How do you build the package?

[Thomas Weber]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:58:24PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> writes:
> 
> > I thought the whole point of keeping the package under git was to use
> > git-buildpackage.
> >
> > However, after cloning the alioth repo and running "git-buildpackage", I get:
> >
> >     fatal: Not a valid object name upstream/3.4.3
> >     octave_3.4.3.orig.tar.gz does not exist, creating from 'upstream'
> >     fatal: Not a valid object name upstream
> >
> > How am I supposed to build the package?
> 
> I think this is because you did not create local branches for upstream
> and pristine-tar. Do the following in your local repo:
> 
>  git branch upstream origin/upstream
>  git branch pristine-tar origin/pristine-tar
> 
> I don't know if there is an automated way of doing this.

There is: 
	gbp-clone

	Thomas