Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2019-01-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 01:07pm GMT, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous > backport not mentioned in changelog"): >> Suggesting that the user use --overwrite=2.13.0-1.1~bpo8+1, or `git >> merge -s ours

Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog"): > Suggesting that the user use --overwrite=2.13.0-1.1~bpo8+1, or `git > merge -s ours dgit/dgit/stretch-backports`, is indeed what we should do. > > I think t

Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2019-01-06 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 -moreinfo Hello, On Sat 05 Jan 2019 at 07:14pm GMT, Ian Jackson wrote: > Stepping back a bit: with a rebasing workflow such as you describe, > dgit's sanity check strategy for overwriting-pseudomerges (which are > basically like force pushes) cannot work. > > I am not sure if

Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog"): > Does that make some kind of sense ? How can we better guide the user > who finds themselves in this situation ? #913451 "dgit manpages: discuss --overwrite in m

Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog"): > There are merge and rebase workflows in use for the Debian changelogs of > backports. Some backport maintainers merge the new ve

Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2017-03-11 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: dgit Version: 4.0 Severity: normal There are merge and rebase workflows in use for the Debian changelogs of backports. Some backport maintainers merge the new version in testing into their backports branch, so that the previous backport's entry remains in the changelog (the 'merge'