Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 dgit-maint-merge(7): clarify patch series non-goal
Daniel Shahaf writes ("Bug#851897: dgit: please have generated source packages
contain standard patch series"):
> Some source packages generated by dgit have a single debian patch, with
> instructions in debian/source/patch-header to use dgit to obtain the
> patch series. That's advised by dgit-maint-merge(7).
Thanks for the report.
After discussing this on IRC, you and I have come to the conclusion
that your main problem is that the maintainer of the package in
question has adopted a workflow which does not maintain a cleanly
separated patch series.
(In our IRC conversation I mentioned that there are other possible
dgit workflows, such as dgit-maint-gbp(7) and the putative
git-debrebase one.)
Looking at dgit-maint-merge(7), I think it doesn't make this
particular tradeoff clear enough. I think perhaps it should be
enhanced with an additional bullet point, something like this:
o It is not necessary to maintain the divergence from upstream
(if any) as a patch series. That is: it is not necessary to
maintain the delta as a stack of individual commits or patches,
to be applied in turn to the current upstream.
Sean, Daniel, what do you think ?
FTR: Sean Whitton is the author of that manpage.
Ian.
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