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Hello,

On Thu, Nov 23 2017, Johannes Schauer wrote:

> Another section that could be improved in the dgit-maint-merge man
> page is "NEW UPSTREAM RELEASES" "When upstream releases only
> tarballs".
>
> After running "gbp import-orig" the master branch will contain the new
> upstream version but changes from debian/patches are not applied. The
> man page could expand on best practices on how to carry over changes
> from the last upstream version to the new upstream version.

Right.  It should at least say that this action needs to be taken.

What are the best practices you mention?

> And secondly, the section for "When upstream releases only tarballs"
> should at least contain as much information as the section "When
> upstream tags releases in git". So the former could also have some
> references to how to inspect upstream changes and how to run dch.

Indeed it should.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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