[PATCH] New script to generate a Debian orig tarball from source

[Colin King]

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

This generates a .orig tarball from the git repo. Note that this
will reset --hard to the latest tag. Beware!

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 make_orig_tarball.sh | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 make_orig_tarball.sh

diff --git a/make_orig_tarball.sh b/make_orig_tarball.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..74d8155c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/make_orig_tarball.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Canonical
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+#
+
+#
+# Generate a Debian orig tarball from latest tagged release
+#
+TAG=$(git tag | tail -1 | sed s/V//)
+git reset --hard V${TAG}
+git clean -fd
+echo "Making debian orig tarball for fwts V${TAG}"
+rm -f m4/* ../fwts_*
+git archive V${TAG} -o ../fwts_${TAG}.orig.tar
+gzip -9 ../fwts_${TAG}.orig.tar 
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2.11.0