gbp vs. vcswatch - how to create automatic debian tags?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

(Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel)

Hi!

I have noticed some time ago that vcswatch doesn't recognize the releases
of some of my Debian packages such as fs-uae [1]. As a result, it sees 67
commits since the last release, asking me to perform an upload.

However, I have already uploaded all changes and I'm apparently just missing
the proper tags. I have always used gbp for git packaging and "gbp dch --auto"
to finalize the changelog, apparently that's not sufficient.

Could anyone tell me what the proper gbp command is for creating the changelog
entries for the new release including the proper tag. The gbp manual [1] mentions
Debian tags but it doesn't seem to explain how to create them.

And if I wanted to add the tags later manually and push them, what is the expected
format of the tags? Just "debian/$VERSION"?

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fs-uae
> [2] http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.releases.html#gbp.changelog.release

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