Re: dgit and git-dpm
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> maintainers of other tools. It does seem to me to imply that using
> git-buildpackage to do an NMU is risky, because:
Yes, it is – anything other than the standard Debian tool
(dpkg-buildpackage) is.
> If some user of git-buildpackage (without dgit) tries to do an NMU of
> a package containing .gitignore, it will remove the .gitignore. If
> the NMUer doesn't notice, then the maintainer certainly will when they
They should read the debdiff anyway… but yeah.
bye,
//mirabilos
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