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Re: What is +gh? (WAS Re: [DRE-maint] ruby-em-redis_0.3.0+gh-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable, unstable)



Hi!

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:34:32PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2014 02:32 PM, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> > This information belongs in debian/README.source or even
> > debian/copyright, but not in the version number, especially since it
> > is completely opaque to our users. Cheers, Vincent 

> It is useful when importing multiple tarballs of the same upstream
> release using git-import-orig when initial dsc is created using gem file
> from rubygems.org and github tarball is imported later to include tests.

If you notice this before you push to alioth, you can delete the
git upstream/xxx tag, remove the upstream tarball in the parent
directory, and import again the new tarball from Github with
gbp import-orig, with the very same upstream version number.

Cédric

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