Re: source format 3.0 (git) with native version numbers

[Daniel Wozniak <dan@woz.io>]

Niels,

Thanks for the reply and your explanation.

~Daniel

On 04/06/2014 12:54 AM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2014-04-06 02:39, Daniel Wozniak wrote:
> > Et-all,
> >
> > I am trying to switch from source format 3.0 (native) to 3.0 (git)
> > however I still want to maintain native versions on my packages and do
> > not want to generate orig.tar.gz files.
> >
> > If I simply change debain/source/format form native to git the package
> > builds successfully and the source gets fetched correctly with apt-get
> > source. Everything seems to be working as I expected. However, when
> > lintian runs it throws an error.
> >
> > internal error: could not find the source tarball at
> > /usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Util.pm line 967.
> >
> > It think this is a bug in lintian but want to check here insights before
> > filing a bug report.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ~Daniel
>
> Hi,
>
> We are looking at #605999 - Lintian have never been reviewed for "3.0
> (git)" support (nor the bzr-one); partly because the format is not
> officially approved by the Debian archive (note that dpkg-source(1)
> lists these formats as experimental).
>
> That said, the current master branch seems to be able to process it
> (mostly). A bit of searching suggests that the first version to process
> a "3.0 (git)" package was 2.5.11 - guess I can close #605999 now. :>
>
> """
> $ run-lintian --version
> Lintian v2.5.22.1-7-g830ce22
> $ run-lintian -EIL +pedantic ../lintian_2.5.22.2.dsc
> W: lintian source: diff-contains-git-control-dir .git
> E: lintian source: unsupported-source-format 3.0 (git)
> N: 6 tags overridden (2 errors, 3 warnings, 1 info)
> """
>
> ~Niels