On 2013-10-20 18:30:42, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Antoine Beaupré writes ("Bug#726953: dgit fails with submodules"):
>> Package: dgit
>> Version: 0.15
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> This one is a little hairy, but regardless...
> ...
>> I will try to push this git repo online once I have the benediction of
>> the current maintainer, for further testing.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what's going on here but AFAICT you are trying to
> do dgit push on a branch which contains git submodule metadata - ie,
> where the complete source tree depends on these other modules.
That is correct.
> How do you think dgit should handle these problems ?
Completely ignore the submodules. The original build tree doesn't
actually need it at all.
> (I tried a dgit clone of bugs-everywhere and found it was only in
> squeeze, and the clone seemed to work just fine.)
Yeah, you need to merge it with upstream and do all bunch of crazy
things to update it to the latest version.
I'll post the git repo shortly.
A.
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