gbp reporting error "Can't find upstream vcs tag" when the upstream tag is not on any branch

[wlyu2]

When I am trying to create a debian package for "k8s.io/cli-runtime", I encountered the following error:

$ dh-make-golang make -git_revision v0.30.1 -type l k8s.io/cli-runtime
2024/11/26 10:33:32 Starting "dh-make-golang v0.7.0 linux/amd64"                                                                                                                                            
2024/11/26 10:33:32 revision: "v0.30.1"                                                                                                                                                                     
2024/11/26 10:33:32 Downloading "k8s.io/cli-runtime/..."                                                                                                                                                    
2024/11/26 10:33:34 Determining upstream version number                                                                                                                                                     
2024/11/26 10:33:34 Found latest tag "kubernetes-1.30.1"                                                                                                                                                    
2024/11/26 10:33:34 WARNING: Latest tag "kubernetes-1.30.1" is not a valid SemVer version                                                                                                                   
2024/11/26 10:33:34 Latest tag "kubernetes-1.30.1" matches master                                                                                                                                           
2024/11/26 10:33:34 Package version is "1.30.1"
...
2024/11/27 11:30:10 Adding remote "origin" with URL "[email protected]:go-team/packages/golang-k8s-cli-runtime.git"                                                                                      
2024/11/27 11:30:10 Adding remote "k8s" with URL "https://github.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime"                                                                                                                
2024/11/27 11:30:10 Running "git fetch k8s"                                                           
remote: Enumerating objects: 8128, done.                                                              
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3177/3177), done.                                                                                                                                                           
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (643/643), done.                                                                                                                                                          
remote: Total 8128 (delta 2613), reused 3066 (delta 2525), pack-reused 4951 (from 1)                                                                                                                        
Receiving objects: 100% (8128/8128), 4.90 MiB | 17.98 MiB/s, done.                                    
Resolving deltas: 100% (5200/5200), done.                                                             
From https://github.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime                                                        
 * [new branch]      master                    -> k8s/master                                                                                                                                                
 * [new branch]      release-1.12              -> k8s/release-1.12                                                                                                                                          
 * [new branch]      release-1.13              -> k8s/release-1.13                                                                                                                                          
 * [new branch]      release-1.14              -> k8s/release-1.14                                                                                                                                          
 * [new branch]      release-1.15              -> k8s/release-1.15         
 * [new branch]      release-1.16              -> k8s/release-1.16         
 * [new branch]      release-1.17              -> k8s/release-1.17         
 * [new branch]      release-1.18              -> k8s/release-1.18         
 * [new branch]      release-1.19              -> k8s/release-1.19        
 * [new branch]      release-1.20              -> k8s/release-1.20         
 * [new branch]      release-1.21              -> k8s/release-1.21        
 * [new branch]      release-1.22              -> k8s/release-1.22  
 * [new branch]      release-1.23              -> k8s/release-1.23  
 * [new branch]      release-1.24              -> k8s/release-1.24         
 * [new branch]      release-1.25              -> k8s/release-1.25         
 * [new branch]      release-1.26              -> k8s/release-1.26 
 * [new branch]      release-1.27              -> k8s/release-1.27      
 * [new branch]      release-1.28              -> k8s/release-1.28        
 * [new branch]      release-1.29              -> k8s/release-1.29        
 * [new branch]      release-1.30              -> k8s/release-1.30        
 * [new branch]      release-1.31              -> k8s/release-1.31        
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.13.12        -> kubernetes-1.13.12      
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.13.13-beta.0 -> kubernetes-1.13.13-beta.0                                                                                                                                 
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.14.8         -> kubernetes-1.14.8            
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.14.9-beta.0  -> kubernetes-1.14.9-beta.0   
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.10.0-alpha.0 -> kubernetes-1.10.0-alpha.0
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.10.0-alpha.1 -> kubernetes-1.10.0-alpha.1                                                                                                                                 
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.10.0-alpha.2 -> kubernetes-1.10.0-alpha.2
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.10.0-alpha.3 -> kubernetes-1.10.0-alpha.3                                                                                                                                 
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.11.0-alpha.0 -> kubernetes-1.11.0-alpha.0                                                                                                                                 
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.11.0-alpha.1 -> kubernetes-1.11.0-alpha.1                                                                                                                                 
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.11.0-alpha.2 -> kubernetes-1.11.0-alpha.2                                                                                                                                 
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.12.0-alpha.0 -> kubernetes-1.12.0-alpha.0
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.12.0-alpha.1 -> kubernetes-1.12.0-alpha.1
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.12.0-beta.0  -> kubernetes-1.12.0-beta.0
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.13.0-alpha.0 -> kubernetes-1.13.0-alpha.0
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.13.0-beta.2  -> kubernetes-1.13.0-beta.2
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.13.10        -> kubernetes-1.13.10                                  
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.13.11        -> kubernetes-1.13.11                                                                                                                                        
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.13.11-beta.0 -> kubernetes-1.13.11-beta.0                           
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.13.12-beta.0 -> kubernetes-1.13.12-beta.0                           
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.14.0         -> kubernetes-1.14.0                                   
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.14.0-rc.1    -> kubernetes-1.14.0-rc.1                              
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.14.1-beta.0  -> kubernetes-1.14.1-beta.0                            
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.9.0-alpha.0  -> kubernetes-1.9.0-alpha.0                            
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.9.0-alpha.1  -> kubernetes-1.9.0-alpha.1                            
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.9.0-alpha.2  -> kubernetes-1.9.0-alpha.2                            
 * [new tag]         kubernetes-1.9.0-alpha.3  -> kubernetes-1.9.0-alpha.3   
gbp:error: Import of /home/wlyu/work/deb_package_sid/dh-make-golang/golang-k8s-cli-runtime_1.30.1.orig.tar.gz failed: Can't find upstream vcs tag at 'kubernetes-1.30.1'
2024/11/26 10:33:41 Could not create git repository: import-orig: exit status 1

Turns out that many release tags, including this kubernetes-1.30.1 tag, in the "k8s.io/cli-runtime" upstream repo are not on any branches:

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime.git (push)

$ git tag --contains v0.31.3
kubernetes-1.31.3
v0.31.3

$ git branch --contains kubernetes-1.31.3 && echo DONE
DONE

When "dh-make-golang" is creating the "debianized" source repo based on the upstream repo in make.go:createGitRepository(), "dh-make-golang" is creating it from scratch, adding the remote, and updating the tags. However, during this step, "dh-make-golang" is using "get fetch" with no additional flags or options:

dh-make-golang/make.go

Line 497 in d70d43c

if err := runGitCommandIn(dir, "fetch", u.remote); err != nil {

This results in upstream tags not on any branch not being fetched resulting in the observed gbp error.