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Bug#895762: lintian should check if Vcs-Git branch matches d/gbp.conf branch



On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 09:30:14PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:48:13AM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > If a package uses gbp and a deban-branch is specified in d/gbp.conf, then
> > vcswatch should probably be checking that branch.  In #886334, it's pointed out
> > that vcswatch cannot use gbp.conf since that requires unpacked source.  So
> > here's a lintian check to warn on the mismatch.
> 
> Note that this is going to most likely cause tons of false positives.
> Think of packages which origin's HEAD is correctly set (so the -b option
> in Vcs-Git is pointless) but still set debian-branch in d/gbp.conf.

Hmm, I see.  If that's common, this probably can't be checked for.

Ross

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