Simon Josefsson:
> Hi. I'm preparing my first backport and couldn't find any information
> on what the best work flow for a Debian package that uses git,
> git-buildpackage, pristine-tar and so on. Are there any pointers here?
>
> Should I create a separate branch, pulling in things from 'master' once
> that version has hit testing, update the changelog and maybe modify
> gbp.conf to point at the backport branch, and then build and upload?
> Is anyone working with backports this way? Any other pitfalls?
I create a branch. Use `git merge --no-ff` from the tag that gets in
testing. Then `dch --bpo`. Most of the time that's the only change that
needs to be recorded.
Configuring dpkg-mergechanglogs(1) helps to make subsequent merge
painless.
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