would it be helpful to have a "like pull-lp-source" mode?

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

Hi,
this isn't a hard request, but I was thinking about the few cases left that I'm not yet using git-ubuntu for. One is if I want to locally recreate autopktest which makes me need the dsc file.

$ pull-lp-source edk2
$ sudo ~/work/autopkgtest/autopkgtest/runner/autopkgtest --no-built-binaries --apt-pocket=proposed=src:qemu --apt-upgrade --shell-fail edk2_2022.11-5.dsc -- qemu --ram-size=1536 --cpus 1 ~/work/autopkgtest-lunar-amd64.img

I know I could generate that from the git repo
But that would be more stages:

$ git ubuntu clone edk2
$ cd edk2
$ git ubuntu export-orig
$ dpkg-buildpackage -S -nc -I -i -d
$ sudo ~/work/autopkgtest/autopkgtest/runner/autopkgtest --no-built-binaries --apt-pocket=proposed=src:qemu --apt-upgrade --shell-fail edk2_2022.11-5.dsc -- qemu --ram-size=1536 --cpus 1 ~/work/autopkgtest-lunar-amd64.img

And not 100% the same (other signature for example)

So I wondered if you'd consider it easy to add a --like.. mode.
That could be combined with my request for shallow-clones of just one release for speed.
And directly deliver what people are used to - tarball + dsc + tree with applied patches.

If we have it, deliver the original dsc
If we do not have it, we could directly create an unsigned (no prompt) one.
Well, those are details to be discussed.

Having that might help with even better adoption by more devs as it would be a drop in replacement for their workflows.