Dear Cyril, > I think this is just regular Git when it's not told to apply special > care when it comes to merging tags. From `git help merge`:
Thank you for explaining this and thanks to Domenico for asking the question! I was wondering just the same thing recently having seen this happen in a non-Go Debian package. > I don't have hard evidence on this (and don't feel like digging to > double check) but I seem to remember merging tags happily (getting a FF > without the aforementioned tricks) for many years, until “recently”. I'd > say that changed in buster or bullseye. From a quick git-blame, it looks like this behaviour has been in Git since at least 2013: https://github.com/git/git/commit/77c72780edfa5e3858423366fc91699724793b39 I also can't find any change in behaviour in git-buildpackage (the file in question appears to be git-buildpackage/gbp/scripts/import_orig.py). Best wishes, Sebastian
