jurjen@lwp05:~/packaging/hello$ cd hello-2.7/
jurjen@lwp05:~/packaging/hello/hello-2.7$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /admin/jurjen/packaging/hello/hello-2.7/.git/
jurjen@lwp05:~/packaging/hello/hello-2.7$ git-import-orig ../hello-2.7
hello-2.7/ hello-2.7.tar.gz
jurjen@lwp05:~/packaging/hello/hello-2.7$ git-import-orig ../hello-2.7.tar.gz
What will be the source package name? [hello]
What is the upstream version? [2.7]
gbp:info: Importing '../hello-2.7.tar.gz' to branch 'master'...
gbp:info: Source package is hello
gbp:info: Upstream version is 2.7
gbp:info: Successfully imported version 2.7 of ../hello-2.7.tar.gz
jurjen@lwp05:~/packaging/hello/hello-2.7$