On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:11:37PM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Sunday, 19 June 2016 9:59:30 PM AEST Martín Ferrari wrote: > > On 19/06/16 20:47, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > > > I would be happy to upload updated package but I've noticed that > > > "upstream" branch follows upstream history so "gbp import-orig" would > > > break it and I'm not sure how to handle such repository configuration... > > > > I have just done it. These are the steps: > > [...] > > Thank you, Martin. :) > > I think your procedure could be improved if "git merge upstream/2.1" > is modified with "--squash" to produce one neat merge commit to "master" > instead of flood of upstream commits that make it difficult to identify > packaging-related commits. Merge from upstream branch that follows upstream > history makes it difficult to review packaging changes therefore I see it as > counter-productive especially for team-maintained packages.
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