Package: dgit Version: 4.0 Severity: normal There are merge and rebase workflows in use for the Debian changelogs of backports. Some backport maintainers merge the new version in testing into their backports branch, so that the previous backport's entry remains in the changelog (the 'merge' workflow). Others base each backport on the version in stretch, discarding the changelog entries for older backported versions (the 'rebase' workflow).
For a backport using the rebase workflow, dgit refuses to push:
Checking package changelog for archive version 2.13.0-1.1~bpo8+1 ...
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: 'from' option specifies non-existing version
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: use oldest entry that is later than the one
specified
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: 'to' option specifies non-existing version
dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: use newest entry that is earlier than the one
specified
dgit: missing field Version in parsed changelog
dgit: Perhaps debian/changelog does not mention 2.13.0-1.1~bpo8+1 ?
dgit has correctly identified the problem -- the changelog does indeed
fail to mention 2.13.0-1.1~bpo8+1. But this is a perfectly legitimate
approach to backporting (personally, I prefer the merge workflow, but a
sponsee of mine uses the rebase workflow, which is how I ran across
this).
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dgit depends on:
ii apt 1.4~rc2
ii ca-certificates 20161130
ii coreutils 8.26-3
ii curl 7.52.1-3
ii devscripts 2.17.1
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.22
ii dput-ng [dput] 1.11
ii git [git-core] 1:2.11.0-2
ii git-buildpackage 0.8.12.2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.22
ii libjson-perl 2.90-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1
ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-1
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.10-1
ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-5+b4
ii libwww-perl 6.15-1
ii perl 5.24.1-1
Versions of packages dgit recommends:
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.4p1-6
Versions of packages dgit suggests:
ii sbuild 0.73.0-4
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Sean Whitton
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