[git-buildpackage] Would it be possible for pristine-tar to not be an absolute path?

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:55:30PM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> Hi Guido,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> To be clear, we only use gbp for orig tarball handling currently (we
> >> import-orig the tarballs published for Debian & Ubuntu, and use
> >> buildpackage (eventually export-orig, once it's available) to get the
> >> tarballs back out).
> >
> > gbp export-orig is already in the versions in experimental. It will gain
> > some more features in the near future (like checking out arbitrary
> > versions without having a working copy).
> 
> Have the parenthetical changes landed yet? Or does both
> gbp-buildpackage (when using pristine-tar, or not) and gbp-export-orig
> only extract tarballs for HEAD?

gbp-buildpackge extracts tarballs for the version you're building (I
think that's the only thing that makes sense). gbp export-orig should
support exporting any version given a debian revision:

    gbp export-orig 10.0.1-1

We could assume '-1' if not given:

    gbp export-orig 10.0.1

I should be a simple as fetching the right DebianSource in main() but I
did not get around to look into that.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Thanks,
> Nish
>