build-source doesn't accept a treeish

[Robie Basak]

git ubuntu build-source <treeish>

Expected: it'll from build that one, rather than HEAD.
Actual: various errors as it passes it on to dpkg-buildpackage. Nice warning though :)

This would be useful for SRUs, when I have prepared three branches and am ready to go, so I want three source packages.

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Can you provide steps for reproducing this? I guess I'd need to recreate
your treeish locally? Or make a dummy commit, push it somewhere, and then I
can use it's treeish.

On Jul 27, 2017 07:11, "Robie Basak" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> git ubuntu build-source <treeish>
>
> Expected: it'll from build that one, rather than HEAD.
> Actual: various errors as it passes it on to dpkg-buildpackage. Nice
> warning though :)
>
> This would be useful for SRUs, when I have prepared three branches and
> am ready to go, so I want three source packages.
>
> ** Affects: usd-importer
> Importance: Wishlist
> Status: New
>
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[Robie Basak (racb)]

This isn't a bug, it's a feature request.

build-source doesn't currently take a treeish argument. So to reproduce:

git ubuntu clone something
cd something
add a changelog entry and commit it
git checkout pkg/ubuntu/trusty-devel # (say)
git ubuntu build-source ubuntu/devel

This fails because build-source doesn't understand ubuntu/devel and passes it to dpkg-buildpackage, but even if it didn't, it would build the source for pkg/ubuntu/trusty-devel instead of ubuntu/devel.

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Ah sorry, I misunderstood.