bzr-builddeb should allow the inclusion of orig.tar.gz

[Philipp Kern]

Binary package hint: bzr-builddeb

bzr-builddeb should allow the inclusion of orig.tar.gz, which is especially helpful for PPAs. As the bzr command line parser does not support the addition of a -sa switch I would suggest `--include-orig'.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Isn't this what the "builder" option is meant for?
It defaults to "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us", but could get changed to e.g. "debuild -sa".
See /usr/share/doc/bzr-builddeb/user_manual/configuration.html

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

`--include-orig' is by its nature a temporary setting (i.e. first upload (of a new upstream version)), I don't want to change the builder for it.

Reinhard already agreed on this and will include it in the next upload.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Does '--source' not fulfil the requirement of the PPA, does it also require a binary package?

I am not too keen on '--include-orig', it suggests we would add a corresponding flag for each
of the dpkg-buildpackage arguments.

Philipp for the builder you can override it once on the command line with '--builder', however I
realise this isn't optimal.

Another approach would be '--builder-args' which just extends the builder arguments with those
that you supply, so that you can add '-sa' in this case, and also '-v0.2' or whatever else you want,
without having to type the full builder out.

Thanks,

James

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

I marked this as a duplicate of the more general complain, as I believe
this use case should be addressed by that fix.

  bzr builddeb -- -S -sa

should do what you want.

Thanks,

James