git-import-orig's --uscan options always leaves the orig tarball (and
a symlink) in ../, since do_uscan() has the options hardcoded:
['uscan', '--symlink', '--destdir=..', '--dehs']

(I'd prefer --rename over --symlink but that's a matter of taste.)

But the hardcoded --destdir looks improvable to me, since there is
already a tarball-dir option for .gbp.conf; I guess it's only used by
git-buildpackage to look for the orig.tar.gz at the moment, but it
might be easy to also use it for git-import-orig to place the tarball
right there.

Cheers,
gregor

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options; for example, i usually run "uscan --verbose --force-download
--repack --rename --destdir ~/deb/tarballs/" and i'm not really happy with
the `import-orig --uscan` result as that breaks my workflow.

would you think you could add a config-file option for uscan (maybe even
defaulting to "--symlink --destdir=.. --dehs") so that users can customize
it?

thanks!

Hello,

I would also be interested in having gbp import-orig --uscan follow
the "tarball-dir" option. I'm ending up with a lot of leftover tarballs
in different directories because of the current situation.

Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville