Hi Olivier, On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 02:39:49PM +0100, Olivier Sallou wrote: > On 12/01/2016 02:37 PM, olivier sallou wrote: > > HI, > > I have updated (locally) patches for the new release of ncbi-blast+. > > However I face an error during import of new sources in git: > > > > gbp import-orig --pristine-tar ../ncbi-blast+_2.5.0.orig.tar.gz > > .... > > Upstream version is 2.5.0 > > Merging to 'master' > > Automatic merge failed > > Error detected, will roll back changes > > ......
I can confirm I observed this yesterday as well the first time in the case of r-cran-yaml. Luckily the intended import was unusable anyway so finally I did not need to import the tarball in question and I did not need to track this down further. > > This is the first time I face this. > > How can I "force" the import of the sources? Or do you know why/how it > > can occurs? > There is an option --merge-mode=[merge|replace] but is it safe to use > replace ? There is no info on merge issues. If there will be no answer here I'd ask on Debian mentors list. Please share the result here if there is any. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de