On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:11 AM Domenico Andreoli <ca...@debian.org> wrote: > > Dear DGPT, > > I see that dh-make-golang creates the `upstream` branch and an empty > commit "New upstream version..." on it, eg. [0]. > > What's the purpose of such empty commit? I can't find anything related > in DEP-14 [1]. > > I would expect that the upstream branch tracked the upstream repo > without any change.
dh-make-golang just calls git-buildpackage[1], which is gbp import-orig ../<source>_<ver>.tar.gz --upstream-vcs-tag=<ver> [1] https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/blob/52983fc8eecb1ab488d7efa28d0298b65317060a/make.go#L511 -- Shengjing Zhu