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Re: packaging question regarding the watch file



On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 01:24:26AM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote:
> > > Let me try to clarify. Did my package use the code from upstream or the
> > > code from the watch file to build.
> > 
> > Please read how gbp works.
> > gbp uses the version from d/changelog to find the upstream tag which it
> > then uses to recreate the orig tarball.
> 
> 
> I have been reading the documentation here:http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html#GBP.IMPORT.UPSTREAM.GIT.NOTARBALL[1] 
That says the same thing as I did: "version will be replaced with the
upstream version number as determined from debian/changelog".


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