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  • Re: github repo with submodules: non usable source tarball

    From =?UTF-8?B?T3R0byBLZWvDpGzDpGluZW4=?@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 25 11:20:01 2025
    I am considering to package a software stored at GitHub.
    It is under active development and it builds well in Sid.
    However it appears that its source tarball at GitHub does not
    contain all the necessary material: its submodules are not included.
    This issue seems to be an old GitHub issue. Whatever.
    I am wondering how we can grab its source tarball with uscan(1).
    The best solution I come with is to write a script that would git-clone
    with the option `--recurse-submodule` the git repo and then build a
    source ball from this. However this approach sounds heavy to me.
    Is there any better way ? Any example of a package with such an issue
    is welcome.

    Can you provide the URL so we know what specifically we are talking
    about and what the upstream publishes about the release?

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  • From Antoine Le Gonidec@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 25 20:30:01 2025
    It seems this Write software mostly use submodules to depend on shared dependencies, the best move here (but probably not the easiest one) would be to packages these dependencies first.

    Write itself would be packaged afterwards, and build-depend on the packages included before it in the Debian archive.

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  • From Noah Meyerhans@21:1/5 to Jerome BENOIT on Wed Jul 2 16:50:01 2025
    On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 09:38:07AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
    I am considering to package a software stored at GitHub.
    It is under active development and it builds well in Sid.
    However it appears that its source tarball at GitHub does not
    contain all the necessary material: its submodules are not included.
    This issue seems to be an old GitHub issue. Whatever.
    I am wondering how we can grab its source tarball with uscan(1).
    The best solution I come with is to write a script that would git-clone
    with the option `--recurse-submodule` the git repo and then build a
    source ball from this. However this approach sounds heavy to me.
    Is there any better way ? Any example of a package with such an issue
    is welcome.

    The aws-crt-python source package is similar. See debian/README.source
    for how I handled that.[1] It works well enough, though it'd probably be
    good to use uscan's native submodule support instead if that's an
    option.

    noah

    1. https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/aws-crt-python/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/README.source?ref_type=heads

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