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Re: Help with new package version?



Hi Benjamin,

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:37:05PM -0400, Benjamin Redelings wrote:
> I've released a new version 3.0.3 of bali-phy, and I realize that I don't
> understand how to manage the salsa repo using git.  I've tried something
> like this (mostly locally), but I'm pretty sure there is a way of doing this
> with gbp that is recommended instead:
> 
>     git fetch upstream
>     git fetch upstream --tags
>     git checkout upstream
>     git merge -X theirs 3.0.3
>     git tag upstream/3.0.3+dfsg
>     git checkout master
>     git merge upstream

I assume the problem is that you most probably intend to maintain the
Debian repository in your upstream repository.  I know that this is
somehow possible but I'm lacking experience with this and thus can not
give any helpful hint for this approach.  We actually had some clones of
upstream directories created by other maintainers but I was always
running into problems with this (most probably just me!) and since those
Debian maintainers got busy with other stuff I turned the repositories
in what we consider default repository layout in Debian Med policy[1].

So if qou want to avoid any hassle I'd recommend to do the following:

   gbp clone git@salsa.debian.org:med-team/bali-phy.git

(may be you rename the resulting dir to bali-phy_debian ??) change
to this dir and do

   uscan --verbose
   gbp import-orig --pristine-tar <new_bali-phy_tarball>

This approach is well tested and if something unexpected might happen
you can quickly get help here.

BTW, I base my assumption that you are using your development Git on the
fact that yesterday arrived lots of tags in the Salsa Git repository.  I
took the freedom to do

  for tag in `git tag | grep -v -e '^debian' -e '^upstream'` ; do 
    git tag -d $tag
    git push origin :refs/tags/$tag
  done

since these tags do not make any sense in the current repository on
Salsa.

> I also tried gbp dch, but it tried to create version 3.0.2+dfsg-2 instead of
> 3.0.3+dfsg-1.

Well, dch does not know what version bump you intend to do.  Just use
your editor to fix the version number.

> Would it be possible to give me the quick overview?  My
> apologies for the basic nature of this question.

Your question is perfectly valid and I'm happy to help.  Just keep
on with asking about any problem you might face.

Hope this helps

      Andreas.


[1] https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#git-repository-structures

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