Re: Maintaining a package across several debian codenames

[Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:29:25AM +0200, Robin ALEXANDER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Let's assume I wish to maintain package_A across unstable and bullseye-
> backports. I understand from
> https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep14/ that:
> 
> 1. I need to create 3 branches in my git repository:
> - upstream/latest
> - debian/latest
> - debian/bullseye-backports
> 
> 2. Since I am using git-buildpackage, I presume I would generate 3 tags
> when creating a new package version (ex: v3.0.0)
> - upstream/3.0.0 (when running gbp import-orig)
> - debian/3.0.0-1 (when running gbp buildpackage inside branch
> debian/latest)
> - ??? (when running gbp buildpackage inside branch debian/bullseye-
> backports)
> 
> If the above is correct, what should be the name of the last tag (the
> one issued by gbp buildpackage inside branch debian/bullseye-backports
> ?
gbp buildpackage (or gbp tag) will create the correct tag name for you.