Package: dgit Version: 4.3 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Hi,
Prodded by Sean Whitton's blog post[1], I decided to give dgit another try. I found an upload I needed to do, and used `dgit push-source --gbp`, only to have that fail with the following tail: > synthesised git commit from .dsc 0.11-5 > dgit: split brain (separate dgit view) may be needed (--quilt=gbp). > dgit view: found cached (commit id a83cdaf57fc92b42d16a912aeedc1633971604c2) > Checking that HEAD inciudes all changes in archive... > dgit: check failed (maybe --overwrite is needed, consult documentation) > dgit: Wanted tag maintainer view tag (debian/0.11-5) on dgit server, but not > found > ! Push failed, while preparing your push. > ! You can retry the push, after fixing the problem, if you like. I suppose this gives an experienced user all the information they need, but for a newcomer this is unparseable. The problem is fixed by passing --overwrite (as correctly suggested), but the phrasing could be improved. An option named --overwrite sounds fairly advanced, when in fact it isn't. Some thoughts: 1. Adding a short blurb indicating common causes of this specific error. AFAICT, the most common causes are: first use of dgit, and incorporating NMUs without dgit use. Something like "This usually happens when the last upload was not done using dgit" would go a long way towards demistifying the new user. 2. It occurs to me this situation can be avoided entirely for some cases if dgit can detect the dgit history is composed entirely of synthesized commits (ie, imports from the debian archive and not dgit pushes), or is empty. I have no idea if this is feasible though. 3. As said, --overwrite sounds potentially data-lossy, but is the only solution to this predicament. Maybe it is desirable to have aliases for the common cases: --first-dgit-push or some such. [1] https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/pushsourcedropin/ -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dgit depends on: ii apt 1.6~alpha7 ii ca-certificates 20170717 ii coreutils 8.28-1 ii curl 7.58.0-2 ii devscripts 2.17.12 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii dput 1.0.1 ii git [git-core] 1:2.16.1-1 ii git-buildpackage 0.9.7 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii libjson-perl 2.97001-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-4+b1 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.10-1 ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-5+b6 ii libwww-perl 6.31-1 ii perl 5.26.1-4+b1 Versions of packages dgit recommends: ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.6p1-4 Versions of packages dgit suggests: ii sbuild 0.73.0-4 -- no debconf information
