makes it easier to rebuild the same release after changing the packaging, for example:
sed -i '1 s/mwscan (\(.*\))\+/mwscan (\1-byte1)/g' debian/changelog # bump upstream package version and add -byte suffix
would create 'python-mwscan_20180228.120927-byte1_all.deb' with gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-dist=xenial --git-arch=amd64 --git-debian-branch=master -us -uc -sa --git-ignore-new , but without setting the format to native you'd get this error "gbp:error: upstream/20180228.120927 is not a valid treeish" as it tries to look for a (non existing) upstream tarball.
gwillem
commented
6 years ago
makes it easier to rebuild the same release after changing the packaging, for example:
would create 'python-mwscan_20180228.120927-byte1_all.deb' with
gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-dist=xenial --git-arch=amd64 --git-debian-branch=master -us -uc -sa --git-ignore-new, but without setting the format to native you'd get this error "gbp:error: upstream/20180228.120927 is not a valid treeish" as it tries to look for a (non existing) upstream tarball.see https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0