[git-buildpackage] setting author on command line for gbp dch

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:10:06AM +0200, Gijs Molenaar wrote:
> 2017-12-18 9:35 GMT+02:00 Gijs Molenaar <gijsmolenaar at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Hi Guido,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply, and sorry for the delay.
> >
> > 2017-11-27 15:30 GMT+02:00 Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>:
> >
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> This works as exected in 0.9.3 and in 0.8.18:
> >>
> >>     DEBFULLNAME="bla fasel" gbp dch -S -a --no-git-author -Dxenial
> >>
> >
> > I'm trying to clone the repository from https://git.sigxcpu.org/c
> > git/git-buildpackage/ but it just seems
> > to hang (Cloning into 'git-buildpackage'...without any progress) . I also
> > tried to checkout only one branch.
> > I can visit the web interface without problems though.
> >
> 
> Ok I was too impatient, sorry about that. I'm not sure why but git was not
> giving any feedback. After a while the repo was
> just cloned. It works now! In case you are curious, what I did:

There's a miror on github (agx/git-buildpackage) which should be a lot faster.

> 0.8.18 seems to depend on devscripts (>= 2.17.7~) which itself also depend
> on packages that

This is for signature verification with gbp import-orig --uscan. It will
work but uscan will not fail if the signature is broken and so gbp will
not notice. You won't see an error but since this is security related I
thought I point it out.

> should probably require a backport. That becomes to much work. If change
> the dependency to (devscripts 2.16.2).
> Then the test suite fails:
> 
> gbp: debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup']
> gbp: debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-bare-repository']
> gbp: debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--git-dir']
> gbp: debug: /usr/bin/pristine-tar [] ['verify',
> '../upstream_1.0.orig.tar.gz']
> gbp: error: Pristine-tar couldn't verify "upstream_1.0.orig.tar.gz":
> pristine-tar: Unknown subcommand "verify"

This is due to your pristine-tar being too old. During gbp runtime it
will detect that and skip that step.

> I noticed there is a DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck option, but that doesn't
> seem to work for me, if I run:
> 
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nochecks dpkg-buildpackage

Drop the 's': nocheck not nochecks.

> it still runs the test suite. If i disable the test suite manually in
> debian/control the package builds! If i instal
>  it the signature is correctly updated. thanks!

Great!
 -- Guido