Dear Maintainer,

I attempted to import a new version into 'experimental' branches using: "gbp import-orig --pristine-tar --upstream-branch=upstream-experimental --debian-branch=experimental  ~/Downloads/digikam-7.3.0.tar.xz"

It "failed to reproduce build of ../digikam_7.3.0.orig.tar.xz"

Run with --verbose:

gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-bare-repository']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--git-dir']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'for-each-ref', '--format=%(refname:short)', 'refs/heads/']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/upstream-experimental']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'status', '--porcelain']
What is the upstream version? [7.3.0]
gbp:debug: ['git', 'tag', '-l', 'upstream/7.3.0']
gbp:debug: tar ['-C', '../tmpbk46rf8d', '-a', '-xf', '/home/steve/Downloads/digikam-7.3.0.tar.xz'] []
gbp:debug: Unpacked '/home/steve/Downloads/digikam-7.3.0.tar.xz' to '../tmpbk46rf8d/digikam-7.3.0'
gbp:info: <DebianUpstreamSource path='/home/steve/Downloads/digikam-7.3.0.tar.xz' signaturefile=None>
gbp:info: Importing '/home/steve/Downloads/digikam-7.3.0.tar.xz' to branch 'upstream-experimental'...
gbp:info: Source package is digikam
gbp:info: Upstream version is 7.3.0
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/upstream-experimental']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify', 'upstream-experimental']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'add', '-f', '.']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'write-tree']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify', 'upstream-experimental']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'commit-tree', 'f8eadb9d14b1596e9f6ab263a895230a71614291', '-p', '2090afd33254af7acfdd2fd5e57a77cc270fa584']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'update-ref', '-m', 'gbp: New upstream version 7.3.0', 'refs/heads/upstream-experimental', '5f5a4bf691c048b5c7a9b9641b55af38193f2e23', '2090afd33254af7acfdd2fd5e57a77cc270fa584']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/pristine-tar']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify', 'pristine-tar']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'ls-tree', '-z', 'upstream-experimental', '--']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'mktree', '-z']
gbp:debug: pristine-tar [] ['commit', '../digikam_7.3.0.orig.tar.xz', 'f8eadb9d14b1596e9f6ab263a895230a71614291']
gbp:error: Import of ../digikam_7.3.0.orig.tar.xz failed: Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream 'f8eadb9d14b1596e9f6ab263a895230a71614291': pristine-xz failed to reproduce build of ../digikam_7.3.0.orig.tar.xz
(Please file a bug report.)
pristine-tar: failed to generate delta
gbp:error: Error detected, Will roll back changes.
gbp:info: Rolling back branch upstream-experimental by resetting it to 2090afd33254af7acfdd2fd5e57a77cc270fa584
gbp:debug: ['git', 'update-ref', '-m', 'gbp import-orig: failure rollback of upstream-experimental', 'refs/heads/upstream-experimental', '2090afd33254af7acfdd2fd5e57a77cc270fa584']
gbp:info: Rolling back branch pristine-tar by resetting it to 0505953bee2887d1fef8d301b0d852773a178ac6
gbp:debug: ['git', 'update-ref', '-m', 'gbp import-orig: failure rollback of pristine-tar', 'refs/heads/pristine-tar', '0505953bee2887d1fef8d301b0d852773a178ac6']
gbp:error: Rolled back changes after import error.
gbp:debug: rm ['-rf', '../tmpbk46rf8d'] []

control: reassign -1 pristine-tar
control: affects -1 git-buildpackage

Hi Steve,

This is the problem. pristine-tar (which gets invoked by gbp) fails to
build a reproducible tarball for digikam_7.3.0.orig.tar.xz so
reassigning there.

Cheers,
 -- Guido