On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:47:02 +0100 Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 03:59:43PM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: >> The VCS field on developer Packages overview doesn't seem to >> consider a debian/experimental branch. > >How would DDPO (actually, vcswatch is the component you are interested >in) go about knowing that. > >> The Package overview shows Git - 4.4.5-2 (with the version in red as >> if there's a problem with it) as if that is the latest in Git. > >The problem is in your packages. >The branch vcswatch is using the one pointed by HEAD. If that doesn't >contain the version it is expecting, that's marked as an error. > >In your case, you should be specifying the branch in Vcs-Git, using the >-b flag, as documented in Policy. > >> I can see other packages that have experimental packaging in the >> debian/master branch not showing this as a problem, > >Yes, that's correct, because HEAD points to the branch containing the >most up-to-date packaging. > >> or even those where >> the experimental branch is called simply experimental (and not >> debian/experimental) also not showing the version as problematic. > >This sounds weird, do you have an example? > Ah, thanks. I was looking at python-cartopy but didn't notice that there gbp.conf is also updated with proper branch info for each branch. I guess that is why that package don't report a problem, and mine does. Sorry for the noise, and thanks for the education! best /Andreas gus...@debian.org