Joey Hess wrote: > > Bonus points: rather than "debian/rules clean, create a diff, build", > > have dpkg do "debian/rules clean, commit any uncommitted changes with the > > commit message being the changes from the changelog, create a .git.tgz, > > build" for git-source-format packages. > > I have a feeling that any auto-commit stuff should be controlled by an > option. I'm *sure* that it would annoy some developers. No strong > feelings about whether it should default on or off, though least suprise > suggests *off*.
One problem with auto-committing is tags. Developers will probably want to tag their release before doing the final release build, and if dpkg-source then found and auto-committed a further change, the tag wouldn't accurately match the release. -- see shy jo
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