Package: dgit
Version: 4.2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hello,

That file is ignored by the 1.0 format.  Thanks to Matthew Vernon for
pointing this out.

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Sean Whitton
From 32cbb3e864604de03fe1f97644a7f809ddec81fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 09:32:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] dgit-maint-merge(7): debian/source/patch-header not in format
 1.0

Suggested-by: Matthew Vernon <matt...@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name>
---
 dgit-maint-merge.7.pod | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod b/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod
index 0040604..2674d66 100644
--- a/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod
+++ b/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod
@@ -300,9 +300,14 @@ A single combined diff, containing all the changes, follows.
 
 =back
 
-Alternatively, this text could be added to README.source. However,
-this might distract from more important information present in the
-latter file.
+If you are using the version 1.0 source package format, this text
+should be added to README.source instead.  The version 1.0 source
+package format ignores debian/source/patch-header.
+
+If you're using the version 3.0 (quilt) source package format, you
+could add this text to README.source instead of
+debian/source/patch-header, but this might distract from more
+important information present in README.source.
 
 =head1 BUILDING AND UPLOADING
 
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