Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools"):
> By definition, there shouldn't be any packages in the archive with this,
> because dpkg does not include the local-options when it builds a .dsc:
> that's why it's called "local". You'd have to construct a package by
> hand, without using dpkg-source.

Ah, yes, of course.

> debian/source/options does get included in the .dsc, but some options
> are not allowed to appear there, only in local-options; unapply-patches
> is one of them.

Good.

> dbus in jessie and older had this file in its (gbp-style
> unapplied-patches) git repository, if that's any help to you...

Well, maybe.  I'm not sure that I care very much about the exact error
messages produced in that kind of situation.

dgit push will bomb out if it finds local-options in the git tree
anyway, because it won't be in the .dsc-implied package, so the git
tree and .dsc don't match.

Thanks,
Ian.