From: mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de   
      
   Package: dgit   
   Version: 14.8   
   Severity: wishlist   
      
   Hi,   
      
   this is from the big tag2upload thread in #debian-devel. I'll just quote   
   an exchange between myself an rra here:   
      
   On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 08:41:26AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:   
   >Marc Haber  writes:   
   >> Two minor things. My ~/.gbp.conf contains   
   >   
   >> [buildpackage]   
   [...]   
   >> tarball-dir=../tarballs   
   >   
   >> since I am not too fond of my parent directory being cluttered with build   
   >> artifacts. for dgit rpush, I had to move the origtargz to my git's parent   
   >> directory, and the build artifacts were palced there. Is that configurable   
   >> in dgit?   
   >   
   [...]   
   >I don't think there is an equivalent of tarball-dir, sadly. I also find   
   >this annoying. I have just been living with the orig.tar.gz in the parent   
   >directory causing some clutter (but not nearly as much as the build   
   >products).   
   >   
   >I would love it if there was an option that told origtargz to put it   
   >somehwere else and told dgit to find it somewhere else. Maybe there is and   
   >I just don't know about it?   
      
   Since noone chipped in in a week, the feature seems to be indeed   
   missing.   
      
   Greetings   
   Marc   
      
      
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   Debian Release: forky/sid   
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     APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,   
   'oldstable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),   
   (500, 'oldstable')   
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   Foreign Architectures: i386   
      
   Kernel: Linux 6.18.9+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)   
   Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en   
   Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash   
   Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)   
   LSM: AppArmor: enabled   
      
   Versions of packages dgit depends on:   
   ii  apt                        3.1.16   
   ii  ca-certificates            20250419   
   ii  coreutils                  9.7-3   
   ii  curl                       8.18.0-2   
   ii  devscripts                 2.26.5   
   ii  dpkg-dev                   1.23.5   
   ii  dput                       1.2.4   
   ii  git [git-core]             1:2.51.0-1   
   ii  git-buildpackage           0.9.39   
   ii  libdpkg-perl               1.23.5   
   ii  libjson-perl               4.10000-1   
   ii  liblist-moreutils-perl     0.430-2   
   ii  liblocale-gettext-perl     1.07-8   
   ii  libtext-csv-perl           2.06-1   
   ii  libtext-glob-perl          0.11-3   
   ii  libtext-iconv-perl         1.7-8.1   
   ii  libwww-curl-perl           4.17-13   
   ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.40.1-7   
   ii  python3                    3.13.9-3   
      
   Versions of packages dgit recommends:   
   ii  distro-info-data             0.68   
   ii  liburi-perl                  5.34-2   
   ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:10.2p1-3   
      
   Versions of packages dgit suggests:   
   ii  sbuild  0.91.5   
      
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