On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 01:52:44PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Neither humans nor tools should have to guess which is the correct branch in > a git repository corresponding to the packaging, when we have ways to > specify this unambiguously. I'm not sure why humans need to specify things if tools can find out, but…
> You can point master at the correct branch for the packaging, or if you
> prefer, you can add '-b foo' to your Vcs-Git field, as documented in Policy.
…thanks for pointing this out so clearly!
So I made that change in debian/control here locally and then checked
tracker.d.o/munin but the issue seems to be gone, so I refrained from
commiting this to git and pushing.
> The wording of the message on the tracker may be suboptimal, but I do think
> it's reasonable to ask that 'debcheckout' be given sufficient information to
> DTRT.
I think that message should then include information how to give
sufficient information to debcheckout and not leave that to guesswork.
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cheers,
Holger
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