[gentoo-dev] How to deal with git sources?

[Mike Auty]

Hiya,

I'm trying to update/package up mypy for the main tree which, whilst it
provides a release tarball, relies upon a data library (typeshed) which
does not provide releases.  The recommended method of installation by
upstream is to use git submodules (which the ebuild will do happily),
but repoman rightly complains about LIVEVCS issues.

Is the current recommended method for dealing with this to manually
create a tarball and stash it on dev.gentoo.org somewhere accessible or
are there updated guidelines for this kind of scenario?  If so, where
would they be documented?  Searching for LIVECVS found a bunch of
repoman change discussions, but no documentation as to how to deal with
ebuilds that require this...

Mike  5:)