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



Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2021-10-05 11:45:55)
> (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"?

I use this spell to finalize a package:

gpb dch -a
dch -r
gbp buildpackage
gbp tag
gbp push


(I guess specifically you were asking for the "gbp tag" step)


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